Does service offshoring contribute to development of host location?
Does service offshoring contribute to development of human capital in host location?
Do service offshoring companies invest in training in human resources in thier host location?
How investment in human resources in host locations by service offshoring companies depends on their embedness, offshored business functions activity content (repatability and cultural awarness) motives and place in organizatinal network
General
H1: Offshoring host companies invest more in firm specific training than in general knowledge training
H2: Offshoring host companies invest more in language training than in other general training
Embeddedness
H3: Offshoring host companies with deep local embeddedness investment more in human capital development than companies with shallow embeddedness
H4: Offshoring host companies with deep local embeddedness invest more in general knowledge training compared to companies with shallow embeddedness
H5: Offshoring host companies with shallow local embeddedness invest more in firm specific knowledge training that in general knowledge training
Offshoring motives:
H6: Offshoring host company with knowledge explore motives invest more in human capital development than companies driven by exploit motives
H7: Offshoring host company with knowledge explore motives invest more in general knowledge training compared to companies driven with knowledge exploit motives
H8: Offshoring host company with knowledge exploit motives invest more in firm specific training compared to general knowledge training