SUMMARY: |
Over the last decade, globalization processes have intensified, and as such, global organizations relocated
their secondary processes to new spaces specialized in operations (Peck 2018; Oshri, Kotlarsky, and
Willcocks 2015). Most of the processes that are being externalized are Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO) and Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) (Oshri, Kotlarsky, and Willcocks 2015).
The global outsourcing hotspots are India, China and the Philippines, that concentrate over 80% of
outsourced processes. At European level, Central and Eastern Europe has capitalized most of the
outsourcing in the West, particularly in regards to German capital (Marin 2018; Dustmann et al. 2014).
Almost half (45.4%) of the total foreign investments of German companies is outsourced to Central and
Eastern Europe. In Romania 63.7% of the German foreign investments are processes that were outsourced
to our country (Marin, Schymik, and Tarasov 2018). |