Identify a true statement about outsourcing.

A) It tends to eliminate jobs that are repetitive.
B) It reduces a firm's risk of facing intellectual property theft.
C) It has resulted in larger internal HR staffs.
D) It helps a firm share functions that are of strategic importance.

Outsourcing

The business practice of hiring a party outside a company to perform services or create goods that traditionally were performed in-house by the company's own employees.

Intellectual Property Theft

The unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution of intellectual property rights, such as copyright, trademarks, and patents.