Living with offshoring: The impact of offshoring on the evolution of organizational configurations

Journal of World Business

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-358

  Lampel, Joseph ^a   Bhalla, Ajay ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

Author keywords

Activity interdependence; IT Outsourcing; Offshoring; Organization configurations; Strategic decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957789625     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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