Outsourcing 101 - A Primer
Part Three: Approaches and Recommendations
A.B. Maynard - January 19, 2004

Summary

When a company contracts work from another company, it is typically called outsourcing. Outsourced work is usually performed locally (onshore outsourcing), in other countries in roughly the same time zone (nearshore outsourcing,) in countries that are many time zones away (offshore outsourcing), or some combination of the above. Literally any activity that is performed by a company can be, and probably has been, outsourced...