Consulting Assessment for the Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) Industry in the Philippines

Globalization, Communication and the Workplace: Talking Across The World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 221-241

  Lockwood, Jane ^a  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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