Higher education offshoring as an innovative response to global learning challenges

Damian Kedziora; Elzbieta  Klamut; Timo  Karri; Andrzej  Kraslawski

Higher education offshoring as an innovative response to global learning challenges

Damian Kedziora, Elzbieta Klamut, Timo Karri, Andrzej Kraslawski

HUMLOG - The Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institute, Helsingfors

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The wide implementation of service offshoring strategies worldwide has beenvisible and studied mainly in such business domains as information technol-ogy, accounting, human resource management and customer care centres.Nonetheless, transferring processes to offshore locations has also been im-plemented in the higher education sector. Responding to demographic, socialand globalization challenges, renowned universities seek for innovative solu-tions that shall enhance quality and attractiveness of their operations, whilestrengthening their competitive advantage. The paper examines the case ofan American university that conducts degree programmes in European off-shore locations, in the light of differences between higher education andstandard business offshoring.

Originalspråk	Engelska
Referentgranskad vetenskaplig tidskrift	International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning
Volym	6
Nummer	2
Sidor (från-till)	239-360
ISSN	2232-5107
Status	Publicerad - 2017
MoE-publikationstyp	A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift

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