Transnational communities, offshore outsourcing and offshore subsidiaries: The case of the Indian IT service industry

Asia’s Innovation Systems in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 54-74

  Vang, Jan ^a,b   Overby, Mikkel Lucas ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

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EID: 85089927746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781847201737.00010     Document Type: Chapter

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