Use of rules in decision-making in government outsourcing

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-386

  Khan, Shahadat ^a   Schroder, Bill ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developing country; Foreign aid; Government outsourcing; Unwritten ground rules; Written rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349106719     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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