The Perspective of Business Process Outsourcing in Slovenian Organizations

• Authors: Franc Brcar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Business process management (BPM) and business process outsourcing (BPO) play an important role in organizations helping them ensure competitiveness and competitive advantages and increase efficiency and effectiveness. Our study analyzes the role of outsourcing in Slovenian organizations. Data was obtained through a survey and interpreted with descriptive statistics, frequency statistics and Wilcoxon's signed ranks test. According to the results of statistical analysis there is 95% reliability that the degree of outsourcing of business processes in Slovenian organizations will increase and this applies to most business processes. Thus we can conclude that Slovenian organizations are following the trends in global markets and are adjusting to them as well.

Keywords

EN

business process management; business process outsourcing; BPO; management; process

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 145-150

Dates

published

2011-07-01

online

2011-09-08

Contributors

author

Franc Brcar

• REVOZ d.d., Belokranjska cesta 4, 8000 Novo mesto, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-011-0015-8