Global multisourcing strategy: The emergence of a supplier portfolio in services offshoring

Decision Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 541-570

  Levina, Natalia ^a   Su, Ning ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multisourcing; Offshoring; Outsourcing; Sourcing selection; Strategic decision making; Strategy process

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249127941     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2008.00202.x     Document Type: Article

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