MINI-CASE MINI-CASE MINI-CASE M Questions 1. From the perspective of strategic management, what are the costs and benefits of outsourcing? 2. As a manager, what type of information would you gather and what analyses would you conduct to de- cide whether to outsource an activity? 3. How do you predict that outsourcing from U.S., Japanese, and European firms to China, Taiwan, and India will affect the economies and firms in the three sourcing countries?