“…At the same time, it may decide to adopt a corporate strategy to outsource all other activities considered to be a non core activity. It can therefore, be argued that when an organization adopts a strategy to outsource non-core functions, such as security guards, drivers, canteen and payroll, the likelihood of outsourcing non-traditional functions such as the internal audit function, which has traditionally been believed to be a support mechanism for monitoring organizational performance and governance rather than as a core function that creates competitive advantage for the organization (Rittenberg & Covaleski, 2001) increases as well. Therefore, on the basis of aforementioned theory and emperical studies, the following proposition is advanced:…”