In a typical set-up, American companies will employ Chinese firms to enter handwritten cards into electronic databases, but the English skills of the Chinese can only take them so far with sloppy American handwriting.Then the Chinese (or sometimes the American companies) hire Lakota Express, a company that uses Native Americans who live on a reservation in South Dakota to pick up the slack and to vet the often imperfect work.What kind of work does Lakota Express do?
A)outsourcing
B)unbundling
C)remarketing
D)demarketing
E)insourcing

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Lakota Express is hired to pick up the slack and to vet the often imperfect work of Chinese firms that have been employed by American companies to enter handwritten cards into electronic databases. This is an example of outsourcing, which is the process of contracting out a business process to a third-party provider.

In a Typical Set-Up, American Companies Will Employ Chinese Firms