Making sense of the sourcing and shoring maze: Various outsourcing and offshoring alternatives

Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 18-53

  Chakrabarty, Subrata ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84901543816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-875-8.ch002     Document Type: Chapter

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