Does outsourcing increase profitability?

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-288

  Görg, Holger ^a,b   Hanley, Aoife ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY; SERVICE SECTOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12144267456     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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