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... For instance, the number of offshore service workers grew from less than 35,000 worldwide in 1994 to over 350,000 in India alone in 2003 (Metters and Verma, 2008). This growing trend is expected to continue with estimates that between the years 2000 and 2015, over 3 million white-collar jobs worth more than US$150 billion annually will be moved from the United States to offshore locations (McCarthy et al., 2002). In addition to its overall magnitude, offshoring is also growing in terms of the variety of functions that firms relocate abroad, as firms start to offshore functions rich in product-related knowledge such as research and development (R&D) (Lewin and Peeters, 2006). ...
January 2002