The offshore services value chain: Upgrading trajectories in developing countries

International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 206-234

  Fernandez Stark, Karina ^a   Bamber, Penny ^b   Gereffi, Gary ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

BPO; Business process outsourcing; Global services; Information technology; IT; Knowledge economy; Knowledge process outsourcing; KPO; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053522675     PISSN: 17531942     EISSN: 17531950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTLID.2011.041905     Document Type: Article

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