Organizational participants in the make-or-buy process

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-153

  Moschuris, Socrates J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Make or buy; Organizational participants; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749164091     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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