Call centre growth and location: Corporate strategy and the spatial division of labour

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 519-538

  Bristow, Gillian ^a   Munday, Max ^a   Gripaios, Peter ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LABOR DIVISION; SERVICE SECTOR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034025938     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3265     Document Type: Article

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