Refashioning organizational boundaries: Outsourcing customer service work

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 557-582

  Walsh, Janet ^a   Deery, Stephen ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33646423532     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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