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It also made explicit the dynamic processes that lead to certain observations that have been made in conventional management literature about the effects of outsourcing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The major limitation to this study is availability of information in form of certain operating data need for calibration thus imposing few aggregations on the model.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The authors believe that this work has a degree of originality as it applies system dynamics modeling to public sector outsourcing which not being done before. 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