Adding value through outsourcing: Contribution of 3PL services to customer performance

Management Research News

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 228-235

  Power, Damien ^a   Sharafali, Moosa ^a   Bhakoo, Vikram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Outsourcing; Regression analysis; Service delivery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992925332     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170710733296     Document Type: Article

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