Invisible costs in offshoring services work

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-179

  Stringfellow, Anne ^a   Teagarden, Mary B ^a   Nie, Winter ^b  

^a School of Global Management   (United States)

^b IMD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost savings; Invisible costs; Offshoring services

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COST REDUCTION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

COST SAVINGS; INVISIBLE COSTS; OFFSHORING SERVICES; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 38949112456     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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