Cooperation and opportunistic behaviour in transformational outsourcing

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 1005-1013

  Rebernik, Miroslav ^a   Bradač, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cybernetics; Economic cooperation; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CYBERNETICS; ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS;

BEHAVIOUR; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION; LITERATURE SURVEY; OUTSOURCING PARTNERSHIP; OUTSOURCING RELATIONSHIPS; STRATEGIC INTEREST;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 33749388479     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610675058     Document Type: Article

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