• Here are entered works on the practice by government agencies and business organizations of hiring a contractor to perform parts of an operation rather than performing the tasks themselves. Works on the engagement of third parties to perform all or specified parts of the work required in another, primary contract are entered under [Subcontracting.]
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  URI(s)

  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031614
  • info:lc/authorities/sh85031614
  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85031614#concept

• Instance Of

  • MADS/RDF Topic
  • MADS/RDF Authority
  • SKOS Concept

• Scheme Membership(s)

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Collection Membership(s)

  • LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
  • LCSH Collection - General Collection
  • LCSH Collection - May Subdivide Geographically

• Variants

  • Contract services
  • Contracting for services
  • Outsourcing
  • Services, Contracting for

• Broader Terms

  • Letting of contracts

• Narrower Terms

  • Academic libraries--Administration--Contracting out
  • Agricultural extension work--Contracting out
  • Auditing, Internal--Contracting out
  • Banks and banking--Contracting out
  • Banks and banking--Data processing--Contracting out
  • Business logistics--Contracting out
  • Campaign management--Contracting out
  • Cataloging--Contracting out
  • Community mental health services--Contracting out
  • Corporations--Accounting--Contracting out
  • Corrections--Contracting out
  • County services--Contracting out
  • Drug factories--Contracting out
  • Electronic data processing departments--Contracting out
  • Employees--Training of--Contracting out
  • Express service--Contracting out
  • Food service management--Contracting out
  • Food service--Contracting out
  • Forest management--Contracting out
  • Government libraries--Administration--Contracting out
  • Hazardous waste site remediation--Contracting out
  • Home care services--Contracting out
  • Hospital care--Contracting out
  • Human services--Contracting out
  • Hydrographic surveying--Contracting out
  • Information services--Contracting out
  • Information technology--Contracting out
  • Insurance--Contracting out
  • Intelligence service--Contracting out
  • Juvenile corrections--Contracting out
  • Legal services--Contracting out
  • Letter mail handling--Contracting out
  • Libraries--Automation--Contracting out
  • Life care communities--Management--Contracting out
  • Local transit--Contracting out
  • Logistics--Contracting out
  • Manufactures--Contracting out
  • Medical care--Contracting out
  • Municipal services--Contracting out
  • National cemeteries--Contracting out
  • Nursing home care--Contracting out
  • Occupational training, Military--Contracting out
  • Offshore outsourcing
  • Personnel management--Contracting out
  • Police--Contracting out
  • Postal service--Contracting out
  • Postwar reconstruction--Contracting out
  • Printing, Public--Contracting out
  • Public housing--Management--Contracting out
  • Public libraries--Administration--Contracting out
  • Public libraries--Contracting out
  • Public records--Management--Contracting out
  • Public welfare--Contracting out
  • Radioactive waste sites--Cleanup--Contracting out
  • Refuse and refuse disposal--Contracting out
  • Research--Contracting out
  • Roads--Maintenance and repair--Contracting out
  • School lunchrooms, cafeterias, etc.--Management--Contracting out
  • Social service--Contracting out
  • Technical services (Libraries)--Contracting out
  • Threshing--Contracting out
  • Universities and colleges--Communication systems--Contracting out
  • Universities and colleges--Services for--Contracting out
  • Web site development--Contracting out
  • Wildfires--Prevention and control--Contracting out

• Related Terms

  • Privatization
  • Public contracts

• Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • http://d-nb.info/gnd/7618813-9
  • http://d-nb.info/gnd/4018403-1
  • http://d-nb.info/gnd/4127582-2

• Sources

  • found: 93-132125: Perspectives on outsourcing, 1992.

• LC Classification

  • HD2365-HD2385
  • HD3860-HD3861

• General Notes

  • Here are entered works on the practice by government agencies and business organizations of hiring a contractor to perform parts of an operation rather than performing the tasks themselves. Works on the engagement of third parties to perform all or specified parts of the work required in another, primary contract are entered under [Subcontracting.]

• Example Notes

  • Note under [Subcontracting]

• Change Notes

  • 1986-02-11: new
  • 1997-12-16: revised

• Alternate Formats

  • RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
  • N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
  • JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
  • MADS - RDF/XML
  • MADS - N-Triples
  • MADS/RDF - JSON
  • SKOS - RDF/XML
  • SKOS - N-Triples
  • SKOS - JSON
  • MADS/XML
  • MARC/XML

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