History of offshoring knowledge services

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-147

  Metters, Richard ^a   Verma, Rohit ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Design   (United States)

Author keywords

History; Offshoring; Services

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE SERVICES; SERVICE PROCESSES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38949136665     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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