Ways to improve the profitability of an enterprise through the use of outsourcing

Analysis of empirical data on the role of outsourcing as a way to improve the profitability of the enterprise, allows us to conclude that the impact of outsourcing on the US labor market is exaggerated, including in the scientific literature, such are the results of studies conducted by M. Rishi and S. Saxen. Drezner, G. Mankew and F. Svogel also hold a similar opinion.

For example, the given indicator of 250,000 jobs annually, which can be considered, using S. Dasha's terminology, "lost" for the national economy of the importing country, is quite comparable to the weekly cuts of 500,000 jobs, and therefore no one It can not influence the measures to improve the profitability of the enterprise.

The same forecast figure of 3.3 million jobs, estimated to be reduced in the period 2004-2015, As a result of international outsourcing, can also be considered a sufficient reason to confirm the need for protectionist measures that are the essence of profitability of an enterprise, only being considered irrespective of both the actual volume of annually shrinking jobs that is 15 million, and to another forecast indicator - the number of newly created in The period 2004-2010. Jobs, which is about 22 million.

Based on the results of studies conducted by M.Emiti and UNCTAD experts, the conclusion about the minor impact of outsourcing, as a way of increasing the profitability of the enterprise, on the labor market dynamics is also correct for the UK and other importers of outsourcing services from among the developed countries, respectively. The statement about the relationship between outsourcing and a significant level of unemployment, as well as the possible slowdown in the rate of economic growth due to this, is intuitively true, but it is obviously erroneous from a scientific point of view. In fact, experts from the Economist explain, it is necessary to talk about such a way of increasing the profitability of the enterprise, as the process of redistributing resources, financial and labor, to those sectors where their use is more productive, which in the long run leads to an increase in welfare in the economy .

Confirmed by the results of empirical analysis, the structural nature of the unemployment caused by outsourcing, in turn, means its natural nature due to the continuously occurring changes in the structure of the national economy. This difference makes it possible to understand the incorrectness of claims to the Ricardo model in the part of ignoring the unemployment generated by outsourcing: it is a model of long-term equilibrium. She, with the assumption of the natural nature of unemployment, may well be considered applicable to improving the profitability of the enterprise and to justify the mutually beneficial nature of outsourcing.

Borrowing the terminology of game theory widely used in economic analysis, a number of researchers: D. Farrell, G. Mankew and F. Svogel, V. Esprey, formulate this conclusion as follows: international outsourcing is not a "zero-sum game" where the gain of one side (In our case, the exporting country of outsourcing services) is determined by the loss of another - the importing country. On the contrary, participation in international outsourcing at least does not worsen the situation of the parties in comparison with what was before the establishment of trade relations, and is a situation defined as "win-win", or "a game with a positive sum.

Thus, the Ricardian idea of the mutually beneficial trade for the economies of the countries involved in it maintains its fairness with regard to outsourcing as one of the modern forms of international trade. This, in turn, confirms that long-term benefits from international outsourcing in the long term are obtained by the subjects of both countries involved.