Business Outsourcing

Business Outsourcing

  • Submitted By: dean0kc
  • Date Submitted: 12/18/2012 5:33 PM
  • Category: Business
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Should The United States of America Replicate and Reinforce the Notions of “Business Process Outsourcing”?


The term “globalization”, in economic terms, can be defined as the tendency of a business, or businesses, to spread and offer an assortment of products and services, respectively on a “worldwide” stage. In order to consider any global market presence, International companies have adopted management models such as region-specific management, and product-specific management to maximize the potential to offer efficient products and services to their customers. One such management model that has been successful in the past few years is the “Business Process Outsourcing” model. In some cases, these “business models” include access to personal information by a third-party agency, leading to a clear violation of an individual’s “personal information” privacy. One may argue as to what constitutes as “personal information” as many theories and worldviews of “privacy” exist. According to the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary definition, the term “privacy” is defined as: “freedom from unauthorized intrusion”. Privacy as “Control of Information” can be described as the information that can be made accessible to the public. The information that is available to the public is controlled and manifested by an individualistic company or business, respectively. Any other information found regarding the respective individual, other than that released by that individual correspondingly, can be considered as an invasion of an individual’s privacy. The meaning of what privacy is to an extent is driven by the society and its moral and/or social norms. As the moral and social values evolve from within a society, the expectations of an individual towards society also change, consequently altering the individual’s privacy values as well. For instance, slavery was an accepted practice throughout the nineteenth century, while our modern contemporary society views slavery as “immoral”...

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