Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка

ГЕОГРАФІЯ

Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

GEOGRAPHY

Razumova O. REGIONAL OUTSOURCING PARTICULARITIES

Razumova O.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2899-3695
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

REGIONAL OUTSOURCING PARTICULARITIES

Abstract:

In view of the current trends occurring in the world after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, we can see that the market of manufacturing outsourcing and outsourcing services continues to focus on reducing the cost and efficiency of the manufacturing and communication process by transferring activities to the closest regions. These trends are particularly relevant for the regions of Middle and Eastern America and the Caribbean, as well as for Europe. An important factor in the geographical expansion of outsourcing processes is the simplified system of legal and visa issues. In the Asia region can observe the forces that direct companies to the processes of standardization and concentration of production, in order to satisfy their own needs and in connection with the growth of the middle class in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as its buying power. Described current trends in the sectoral structure and factors that influence outsourcing activities. The tendencies that have become the driving forces in different processes of outsourcing development and identified the factors that have influenced the attractiveness of each country in its region have been studied. Attention is paid to the current strategies of outsourcing and localization. Graphically presented the structure of outsourcing manufacturing and outsourcing services. Distinguished industries and sub-industries in outsourcing manufacturing, which are divided into outsourcing 3$Hebi blanks and functions for ensuring the production of products. Also shown schematically is the structure of outsourcing services and its division into the outsourcing of information technology and business processes, as well as the processes of the back and front plan, and the rest, specific knowledge and information. The article uses the data of consulting and auditing agencies of the Great Four, from where the statistical data were taken to write the article. Outsourcing activities are reviewed according to their type. The greatest attention in the article is given to the study of nearshoring and the reasons that influenced it. Presented the leading countries in global outsourcing by industries, the leading countries in nearshoring and the main areas of business process outsourcing. We have learned how the COVID-19 pandemic crisis affected outsourcing activities and the consequences for the countries that remained after it, as well as how outsourcing companies were able to fulfil their tasks, what was set by the contractors and the place of Ukraine during the crisis and the current situation that affects the economic and political state of the country.
Keywords: IT outsourcing, onshoring, offshoring, offshoreing, nearshoring, global outsourcing, nearshore.

Language: English

DOI: http://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2022.82.14

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O. Razumova, 2022.Regional outsourcing particularities. Visnyk Kyivskogo nacionalnogo universytetu imeni Tarasa Shevchenka, Geografiya [Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Geography], 1/2 (82/83), 100-104 (in English, abstr. in Ukrainian), DOI: 10.17721/1728-2721.2022.82.14

Received Editorial Board 15.05.22
Accepted for publication 13.06.22