Outsourcing: Assessment of The Experience of its Use at Russian Enterprises

Abstract

In industrialized countries outsourcing is widely used and its volume is constantly increasing. In Russia foreign companies and joint ventures use it regularly, while home corporations do not usually trust this business-model. Today ways of resolving economic problems by using outsourcing tools have not been studied yet. The article shows the academic view on outsourcing as a methodological approach to interrelations between enterprises. The authors identify a set of signs characterizing outsourcing and ground the necessity to specify outsourcing functions in management at all levels of national economy. They developed and show conceptual methodology of outsourcing principles, methods, tools and functions of outsourcing, its drawbacks and problems of its introduction into economic practice of Russia. Direct and overhead expenses of outsourcing were estimated. The procedure of the quantitative assessment of outsourcing was described and economic efficiency of passing support functions to outsourcing was shown. The authors ground the necessity to evaluate the cost of functions carried out by the company itself and those conducted by outsourcing tools. It was proved that in relations between enterprises in case of outsourcing the contract is obligatory.