Through my experiences, the resistance from Asia companies and businesses (towards outsourcing) is that they are not convinced that through outsourcing certain functions of their business processes can bring about significant savings in their operating cost. Yet an uncanny feeling I got from them is that the root is not about cost but about control. The context of doing business in Asia is of control. The greater the illusion a company in Asia has about control, the greater the resistance it will have towards outsourcing. The typical paradigm is that if they can see it, they can control it.

Outsourcing to them is to abdicate control (because they can