Outsourcing, organizational competitiveness, and work.

Part of a special section on outsourcing, union survival, and management rights. Discussing the outsourcing phenomena and related issues, the writer contends that outsourcing emerged as a way of lowering the adjustment costs of responding to economic change, which affects both organizations and wor...

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Published in:Journal of Labor Research Vol. 18; pp. 535 - 550
Main Author: Sharpe, Murem
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. Fall 1997
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