Recommended Reading

“Antecedents of Manufacturing Outsourcing: A Manufacturing Strategy Perspective,” John Gray, Aleda Roth and Brian Tomlin at UNC Kenan-Flagler. Working paper, 2004.

“The Best Job in Town: The Americanization of Chennai,” Katherine Boo, The New Yorker, July 5, 2004.

“The Furniture Industry: The Future of the Industry, United States vs. China,” by Virginia Bryson, Gianni Lanzillotti, Josh Myerberg, Elizabeth Miller and Fred Tian. Paper prepared for UNC Kenan-Flagler professor Bob Connolly’s Industry Economics class, March 7, 2003.

“The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” Thomas L. Friedman. Anchor Books, 2000.

“The New Face of the Silicon Age: How India Became the Capital of the Computing Revolution,” Daniel Pink, Wired magazine, February 2004.

“Offshore,” an issue of CFO magazine devoted to outsourcing, June 2004.

“Offshoring Can Generate Jobs in the U.S.,” Craig Karmin, The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2004.

“Outsourcing and Industrial Decline,” UNC Kenan-Flagler professor Richard Bettis, Stephen Bradley and Gary Hamel. Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1992.

“Shifting Work Offshore? Outsourcer Beware,” Spencer E. Ante, BusinessWeek, Jan. 12, 2004.

“What North Carolina Needs to Do to Respond to Global Change,” James H. Johnson Jr., director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. Remarks prepared for the Emerging Issues Forum, NC State University, Feb. 10, 2004.

“Will Outsourcing Hurt America’s Supremacy?” Stephen Baker and Manjeet Kripalani. BusinessWeek, March 1, 2004.

“The Deployment of Temporary Production Workers in Assembly Operations: A Case Study of the Hidden Costs of Learning and Forgetting,” Jeff Stratman and UNC Kenan-Flagler professors Aleda Roth and Wendell Gilland, Journal of Operations Management, 21(6), January 2004, 689-707.