Offshoring and outsourcing business services to central and Eastern Europe: Some empirical and conceptual considerations

European Planning Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1593-1609

  Sass, Magdolna ^a   Fifekova, Martina ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; OUTSOURCING; SERVICE SECTOR;

CZECH REPUBLIC; EUROPE; HUNGARY; POLAND; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 80053327913     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.586196     Document Type: Article

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