Overcoming Inertia: Drivers of the Outsourcing Process

Long Range Planning

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 160-178

  Mol, Michael J ^a   Kotabe, Masaaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; MANAGERIAL ACTIONS; OUTSOURCE; PERFORMANCE EFFECT; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE;

MANAGERS;

OUTSOURCING;

INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; OUTSOURCING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79956273345     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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