Abstract
The global information economy is subject to processes of profound restructuring based on new information and communication technologies. These processes follow different logics, with centralisation within international companies playing as significant a role as decentralisation or the development of networks. This paper makes use of findings from the EMERGENCE and Asian EMERGENCE case study research into telemediated work and relocation of work to shed light on the restructuring of global companies, the dynamics of boundaries between corporations and the emerging new international division of labour in the information economy.
Highlights
In discussions on economic globalisation, far-reaching changes in economic structures and patterns of organisation are attracting increasing attention
Six people are employed on the sales and project management team in Hungary and a further eleven people in a development office in Russia. This example illustrates that information and communication technologies (ICTs)-based relocation of work, or ‘offshore outsourcing’, is not limited to large companies that can afford costly outsourcing projects or the establishment of their own subsidiaries in low-cost countries
Our research on telemediated work and on processes of relocation sheds light on diverse change processes in the global information economy. It will be used in this paper as a window into the restructuring of global companies, to dynamics changes in the boundaries between corporations, and to the emerging new international division of labour
Summary
In discussions on economic globalisation, far-reaching changes in economic structures and patterns of organisation are attracting increasing attention. This example illustrates that ICT-based relocation of work, or ‘offshore outsourcing’, is not limited to large companies that can afford costly outsourcing projects or the establishment of their own subsidiaries in low-cost countries.
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