The transaction cost: Embeddedness approach to studying chinese outsourcing

Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 115-138

  Luo, Jar Der ^a   Yeh, Yung Chu ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84917692330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203890097     Document Type: Chapter

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