The organizational design of offshoring: Taking stock and moving forward

Journal of International Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 315-323

  Jensen, Peter D Ørberg ^a   Larsen, Marcus M ^a   Pedersen, Torben ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coordination; Offshoring; Organizational design; Reconfiguration; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887623232     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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