2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This chapter is organized into three sections. In Section 27.2, we introduce outsourcing practices in a general way. In Section 27.3, we present several models for different outsourcing problems that have appeared in the recent literature. Section 27.3 serves as a starting point to model realistic problems in outsourcing. In Section 27.4, we present a successful case study followed by a summary.
