A reply to Williamson's "outsourcing ..."

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 465-469

  Zipkin, Paul ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

supply chain management; transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860846027     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01287.x     Document Type: Article

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