Regional Development and the Changing Geography of
Outsourcing Business Services in an Enlarged Europe

While much attention has been paid to the patterns and impacts of foreign direct investment in general, there has been less focus on the outsourcing of services, which now constitute a considerable proportion of foreign investments, contributing to an emerging European shift in the distribution of business services provision. The Research Network aims to build upon the theoretical framework of value chains and the changing division of labour, which will be embedded in an understanding of recent trends in corporate restructuring.
Announcement
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Special issues of two journals have resulted from the activities of our research network:
Competition and Change, vol.15(3)
European Planning Studies, vol.19(9)

Organisers:

• Paweł Capik, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, England
• Professor Jane Hardy, Business School, University of Hertfordshire, England
• Dr Grzegorz Micek, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Department of Regional Development, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Past Events & Reports:

• Date: 2nd - 3rd September 2010
  Location: Business School, University of Hertfordshire, England
  Title: The Implications for Sender Country Regions of Outsourcing Business Services
  Call for Papers
  Programme
  
  
  
• Date: 2010
  Location: Hertfordshire, UK

Extra Event:

• RSA Annual International Conference, Pécs, Hungary 24th-26th May 2010
  Session on Spatial and Organisational Reconfigurations of Business Services: Global Trends and Local Consequences
  
  
  
• Date: 4th - 5th September 2008
  Location: Paisley, Scotland, UK
  Report
  
  
  
• Date: 17th - 18th September 2009
  Location: Kraków, Poland
  Title: Local, Regional and Global Reconfiguration of Outsourcing and Offshoring Business Services in 'New' and 'Old' Europe
  Final Programme
  Report