Outsourcing vs insourcing in the human resource supply chain: A comparison of five generic models

Personnel Review

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 671-684

  Kosnik, Tom ^a   Wong Mingji, Diana J ^b   Hoover, Kristine ^c  

^a Visus Inc ^*  (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible labour; Outsourcing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749403539     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480610702728     Document Type: Article

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