Journal: Societal Studies
Year: 2018

This article focuses on an analysis of the legal and economic nature of outsourcing, the definition of its characteristics, and the separation criteria for differentiating the various types of outsourcing. In this work, the author analyses the opinions of different scientists on possible methods of definition for outsourcing and offers her own. In addition, a proposal for considering outsourcing as an object of state industrial policy is provided as a means of developing the national economy, as