SYSTEMATIZATION OF APPROACHES TO DEFINING THE CONCEPT OF “OUTSOURCING”
The article is devoted to a review of the approaches of domestic and foreign authors to the concept of “outsourcing”, including an analysis of their main advantages and disadvantages, as well as a definition of the author's concept of “outsourcing”. The existing approaches to the definition of the concept of “outsourcing” are characterized, namely, the following four main approaches were identified: the transfer of the process of external organization, the involvement of an external organization, the integration of organizations and the optimization of the organization. The considered approaches are conditionally divided into two groups: concentrating attention on the fact of transferring one of the functions of a third-party organization and emphasizing the effect of this transfer (optimization of activities). Also, the article proposes another approach to the definition of this concept, characterizing outsourcing as a process of cooperation between two organizations, characterizing long-term and mutually beneficial relations between them. The essence of outsourcing and outsourcing activities is considered. The methods of comparison and generalization, analysis and synthesis. In the course of the analysis, it was revealed that the issues discussed related to the definition of the concept of “outsourcing” emphasize the multifaceted and complex nature of this category, as well as actualize the tasks of further research in this direction.