Today, in the USA, manufacturing is the industry sector most likely to outsource, with durable goods accounting for 39 percent of all activity, and nondurable goods accounting for 25 percent (Zhu et al, 2001). In addition, with a global outsourcing market estimated at £188 billion in 1998, and with annual growth rates of 15 percent (Coombs and Battaglia, 1998), the distinction between economic activities in different sectors has become blurred (McCarthy and Anagnostou, 2003).