Managing globally disaggregated teams: The role of organizational politics

Global Outsourcing and Offshoring: An Integrated Approach to Theory and Corporate Strategy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 297-324

  Ansari, Shahzad M ^a   Sidhu, Jatinder S ^b   Volberda, Henk W ^b   Oshri, Ilan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79960742136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511761607.012     Document Type: Chapter

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