Antecedents and performance consequences of international outsourcing

International Business Review

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 599-617

  Mol, Michael J ^a,b   van Tulder, Rob J M ^c   Beije, Paul R ^c  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Intermediate products; International outsourcing; Regionalisation globalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844493201     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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