A survey on trends in outsourcing practices in Indian manufacturing organisations

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 591-613

  Singh, Amar ^a   Narain, Rakesh ^a   Yadav, R C ^a  

^a MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

BPO; Business process outsourcing; Information technology and productivity; Outsourcing; SCM; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549130206     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2009.024793     Document Type: Article

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