Outsourcing decision under Utopian environment

Journal of Applied Accounting Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 181-191

  Ray, Amitava ^a   Sarkar, Bijan ^b   Sanyal, Subir ^b  

^a SIKKIM MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Accounting; Linear programming; Outsourcing; Standard costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992927369     PISSN: 09675426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09675420810919739     Document Type: Article

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