Dynamic outsourcing through process modularization

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-244

  Wu, Lifang ^a   Park, Daewoo ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competences; Continuous improvement; Outsourcing; Process management

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749113880     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150910949461     Document Type: Article

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