Offshoring Work: Business Hype or the Onset of Fundamental Transformation?

Long Range Planning

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 221-239

  Lewin, Arie Y ^a   Peeters, Carine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OUTSOURCING;

GLOBALISATION; HUMAN CAPITAL; OFFSHORING WORK;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPLOYMENT; GLOBALIZATION; HUMAN CAPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 33750961813     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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