Competitive Advantage Ethics Human Resources Outsourcing 
Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2016
Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. However, our research suggests that outsourcing production is not inexorably tied to poor workplace conditions. Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Diagnose a competitively disadvantaging problem or an unrealized opportunity for competitive advantage. Prescribe a more competitively advantaged outcome.
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