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Outsourcing, or the allocation of specific aspects of a corporation to a business entity specializing in those areas, has become such an integral part of a company's organizational structure that few question outsourcing's long-term viability. Two recent studies on this topic are no exception; both focus on ways in which outsourcing can be improved. Each, for the most part, discusses different aspects of outsourcing. Yet, there is one area in which the recommendations of both theories overlap somewhat.

Peavy chiefly discusses ways in which companies can mitigate the potential negative effects of confidential information reaching competitors. Presently, when a corporation outsources even a small operational function, it must share information pertaining to this function. In other words, the more of its operation a company entrusts to another business entity, the more confidential information that company will have to release. According to Peavy, one way to minimize the negative consequences should any of that information fall into a competitor's hands is to impose stronger penalties on any business entity entrusted with such information, should it divulge that information. However, Peavy is concerned mostly with exploring the effect of increasing the severity of penalties for any one instance of leaked information, and he devotes only one chapter to an existing structural check on such "information leaks": as a company specializing in outsourcing assumes more clients, its legal liability will increase with each company that becomes a client, an effect, he notes, that becomes more conspicuous the more a company diversifies.

Morgan, on the other hand, looks at those business entities that performed the outsourced work. As such entities grow, their ability to provide specialized services to a specific client diminishes. Since, like most business entities, they are driven to grow profits, often doing so by diversifying, the needs of a specific client are often subordinate to this larger goal. Morgan's aim is to educate corporations engaged in outsourcing so that they choose a firm that focuses on providing one service. This view, however, is somewhat shortsighted, since the long-term trajectory of a company is not always clear and a firm may end up diversifying.

In this regard, there is a curious overlap between the two studies: in some ways both see problems with diversification, Peavy focusing on the liability and Morgan the diminishment in quality of the services rendered. Yet, it is important to note that Peavy focuses on how diversification negatively affects a company providing services to companies outsourcing, whereas Morgan focus on how the latter is negatively impacted.
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  • The primary purpose of the passage is to
    A:describe the way in which two theories conflict
    B:propose two different solutions to the same problem
    C:discuss how two studies arrive at contradictory conclusions
    D:explore two reactions to a phenomenon and draw a parallel
    E:support one theory and discredit a second
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    正确答案: D:explore two reactions to a phenomenon and draw a parallel

    *内容概述:

     文章开头说女性的草根运动时期和他们对新文明意识的看法的核心来自于美国在大推进时期的社会改革。接着进一步解释在这一时期中产白人女性改革者取得的成就。接下来笔锋一转,在童工问  题上不同阶级女性看法不同。改革者认为必须剔除,但工人阶级则认为童工法会让家庭里干活的人变少,生活难以为继。最后是作者的评价,承认改革者要求不适用童工是正确的,但他们没有考  虑到工人阶级的家庭经济状况


    *文章类型:人文历史

    *文章套路:对比解释说明

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    *题目类型:主旨题

    *选项分析:主旨题去看全文内容概述。本文的目的就是文章的结尾处说的中产阶级改革者没能够理解公认阶级的经济状况。因此正确答案是D

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