Governing business process offshoring: Properties, processes, and preferred modes

Journal of World Business

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-419

  Luo, Yadong ^a,b   Wang, Stephanie Lu ^b   Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan ^b   Zheng, Qinqin ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Business process offshoring (BPO); Emerging markets; Governance mode; Organizational control; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879838033     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2012.07.024     Document Type: Article

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