Strategic sourcing: benefits, problems and a contextual model

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-34

  Jennings, David ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modelling; Outsourcing; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986091956     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210413334     Document Type: Article

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