Outsourcing : a phenomenological examination

Abstract

Through years of differing employment climates, legal proceedings, economic situations and globalization, I attempted to follow the practice of outsourcing within the management literature. This study was undertaken because I wanted to answer the following questions: When was the first appearance of the term outsourcing? Was there a way to examine the activities of organizations through the literature itself? What surrounded the practice of outsourcing in these time periods? My methodology included examining management literature from three time periods. I defined these three time periods to better examine their political, social, and economic situations.