Developing a decision model for business process outsourcing

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3769-3778

  Yang, Dong Hoon ^a   Kim, Seongcheol ^a   Nam, Changi ^a   Min, Ja Won ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Business process outsourcing (BPO); Decision model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); ASSIST MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING (BPO); DECISION MODEL;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 34247530257     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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