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IBS professor laments American firms' 'suicidal' outsourcing

Scripps Howard News Service, Sunday, December 19, 2004

SOURCE: The Providence Journal

BYLINE: SHIH-FEN S. CHEN



International Business Machines' recent decision to put its

personal-computer business up for sale is another sad day in

American corporate history. Having long ago outsourced the

development and manufacturing of the product it helped to

create, IBM is not even interested in carrying the personal

computer anymore. So, following RCA, Schwinn and the like,

another iconic U.S. brand is falling into foreign hands.



[...]



If the current trend of outsourcing is allowed to go on, the

victim list will get even longer. The next firm to fall could

well be Boeing, Motorola, Oracle, H&R Block - or any other

company we can think of.



(Shih-Fen S. Chen is an international-marketing professor in

Brandeis University's International Business School. His study

establishing the role of outsourcing in international technology

transfer is forthcoming in the Journal of International Business

Studies. His e-mail address is shihfen at [go to web page])



[Unless I'm mistaken, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich is

also at Brandeis.]

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