Offshoring practices of Danish and Swedish SMEs: Effects on operations configuration

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 693-705

  Waehrens, Brian Vejrum ^a   Slepniov, Dmitrij ^a   Johansen, John ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

offshoring; operations configuration; SMEs; survey

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SURVEYING;

FORMALISATION; GLOBAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; LARGE COMPANIES; OFF-SHORING; OPERATIONS CONFIGURATION; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SMES; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84937977779     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2014.971519     Document Type: Article

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