A study of out-sourcing versus in-sourcing tasks within a project value chain

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 216-232

  McKenna, David ^a   Walker, Derek H T ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Outsourcing; Project management; Sourcing; Value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055205336     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370810866340     Document Type: Article

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