Outsourcing: a corporate competitiveness strategy, not a search for low wages.

Part of a special section on outsourcing, union survival, and management rights. The popular use of outsourcing as a shorthand description of corporate efforts to locate cheap labor is overly simplistic and inaccurate: Several factors contribute to the increasing tendency for firms to define the b...

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Publicado en:Journal of Labor Research Vol. 18; pp. 503 - 520
Autor principal: Deavers, Kenneth L.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. Fall 1997
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