Outsourcing thesis

The outsourcing thesis or externalization hypothesis is an explanatory approach for the growth of the service sector .

It assumes that as part of lean production, individual service sectors , such as logistics or building cleaning , will be outsourced to other companies . Before outsourcing , services provided by a company in the secondary sector were included in the secondary sector. After outsourcing, however, they belong to the tertiary sector , the proportion of which has thus grown.

The interaction thesis or innovation hypothesis offers further explanations .

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• http://www.ibim.de/wigeo/4-3.htm

literature

• Elmar Kulke : Economic Geography ( UTB ; Vol. 2434). 2nd edition Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 978-3-8252-2434-9 .