The adequate design of the partnership between companies in this type of outsourcing activities is essential.
Successful firms identified their clear objectives and expectations of outsourcing activities as the most useful and contributing factors to their outsourcing effort.
This classification of outsourcing activities by Gilley and Rasheed (2000) is therefore adopted for this research.
Another factor is to acquire the right people, with the right skills involved in all phases of outsourcing activities.
This research gives a very good background for the assessment of the effect their outsourcing activities had had on the performance of their enterprises.
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Web services can also be used to support outsourcing activities.
However, 102 (47%) respondents agreed that their outsourcing activities have led to their profitability.
The third factor was not providing enough training/skills needed to manage outsourcing activities.
This research work explored outsourcing activities among SMEs in Gboko, Makurdi and Otukpo metropolis of Benue State, Nigeria with emphasis on organizational operations for the recent past five years (2012 to 2016).
