Criticism and Responses
The ORN project has been criticized in the past for being biased towards corporate interests. This criticism primarily relates to the funding structure of the project in its early years. In the first three years, the main ORN survey was sponsored by advisory firms. In 2007, the Conference Board was recruited as a lead supporter of ORN. According to the Duke ORN research team, this partnership promotes the neutrality of the project. In the 2007/8 Survey Report “Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite” the ORN author team makes the following statement:
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- "Duke Forges a New Partnership with The Conference Board Since its foundation, the ORN project has learned that companies value its academic rigor and objectivity. To further reinforce its neutrality and to differentiate the ORN project from consulting companies, the Duke CIBER has formed a new partnership with The Conference Board—the leading, nonprofit, independent business research organization in the United States. This new collaboration provides an objective platform from which to conduct offshoring research free of any commercial or proprietary bias."
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