Why are different services outsourced to different countries

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 558-571

  Liu, Runjuan ^a   Feils, Dorothee J ^a   Scholnick, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

offshoring; outsourcing; service characteristics; services; transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955084125     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.61     Document Type: Article

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