The relationship between the outsources and the outsources evolves over time. it is possible that the intial outsourcing arrangement could change as the outsources starts to have more confidence in the capability of the outsources. this could also mean that the level of monitoring carried out by the outsources with respect to the outsources's operations is likely to reduce. it may be that the outsources was involved in day-to-day operations management of the outsources activity in the initial phases of the arrangement; however, as the relationship evolves the outsources would gradually reduce involvement in the outsources activity. in fact research has shown that outsources-outsource relationships can move across four stages