Outsourcing and fragmentation in Singapore's manufacturing industry

Singapore Economic Review

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 539-557

  Thangvelu, Shandre M ^a   Toh, Mun Heng ^a   Ng, Kwan Kee ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Offshoring; Productivity; Services outsourcing

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING; OUTSOURCING; PRODUCTIVITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 58149465398     PISSN: 02175908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217590808003099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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