OUTSOURCING AS A FORM OF PARTNERSHIP ARRANGEMENT

Abstract: Modern economy forces business entities to enter into different types of agreements (relations), which on one hand enable to meet growing customer needs and on the other hand - to produce goods or provide services on a high level and with low costs. An example of such a relation is outsourcing. It enables to achieve the abovementioned goals thanks to offering a well-tailored and competent products or services to institutional customers. The authors of the article consider outsourcing as a form of a partnership relation, indicate its features and describe a model of a relation as well as the directions of adjusting entities' organizational structures to effective cooperation within outsourcing