Outsourcing: From cost management to innovation and business value

California Management Review

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 127-146

  Weeks, Michael R ^a   Feeny, David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 51749105266     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41166459     Document Type: Review

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