A decision model for selecting an offshore outsourcing location: Using a multicriteria method

2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lin, Zheng Kui ^a   Wang, Jian Jun ^b   Qin, Yi Yan ^c  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACADEMIC LITERATURES; ANALYTIC HIERARCHIES; BUSINESS PRACTITIONERS; DECISION MODELS; HYBRID METHODS; LOCATION SELECTIONS; MULTI ATTRIBUTES; MULTI-CRITERIA METHODS; OFF SHORINGS; OFFSHORE LOCATIONS; OFFSHORE OUTSOURCINGS; OUTSOURCE; OUTSOURCING DECISIONS; PROMETHEE; PROMETHEE METHODS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 51849139927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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