Aligning organizational control practices with competitive outsourcing performance

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1195-1201

  Kang, Mingu ^a   Wu, Xiaobo ^a   Hong, Paul ^b   Park, Youngwon ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

MNCs in China; Organizational control; Outsourcing performance; Outsourcing strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861676870     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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