Designing a model for measuring the impacts of successful outsourcing on organizations activities

Abstract: Outsourcing is known as using a supplier outside the organization in a way that this supplier provides the same service or goods provided normally inside the organization. Outsourcing likewise any other strategy has its own effects on the organization. This paper tries to evaluate the impact of a successful outsourcing on organization’s activities in selected universities. In order to reach this purpose, after theoretical studies, first, obtained indexes by the expertise are evaluated and then by the confirmatory factor analysis with the help of Lisrel software, the claimed indexes are confirmed. The results of structural equation show that the questioned relevance is directly available and in some other words the implementation of a successful outsourcing will help improving organization’s activities in the statistical.

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 Sadaghani, J., Kheirandish, M., Fard, Y., Kharazian, M & Firouzabadi, M. (2012). Designing a model for measuring the impacts of successful outsourcing on organizations activities.Management Science Letters , 2(5), 1839-1848.

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