Services Offshoring: An Overview

Anthropology of Work Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 9-17

  Skipper, William ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Globalization; Offshore outsourcing; Offshoring; Services; United states; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978330569     PISSN: 0883024X     EISSN: 15481417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/awr.2006.27.2.9     Document Type: Article

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