A typology of offshoring and outsourcing in electronically transmitted services

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 198-211

  Metters, Rich ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Offshoring; Service operations; Typology

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

SERVICE OPERATIONS; TYPOLOGY;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 38949109595     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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