The concept of outsourcing in the Unied States goes back to 80's. But it was in the 90's that really companies began to use it more and more and they found out that this is something that really works for them. Outsourcing is defined as "the practice of subcontracting manufacturing work to outside and especially foreign or nonunion companies." This concept became very widely used in practice today in the United States. Firms such as IBM, Sprint, AT&T, Dell Hewlett Packard, and Novell are some of the major companies which have really been successful using it for a while now. Despite companies success there are still many questions raised whether the US gains more than it looses or the other way around. This controversial issue might be considered a big problem for the US economy, and yet on the other hand it might also be considered a...