The offshoring of knowledge services has become the stuff of newspaper headlines and U.S. presidential debates as discussed by the authors, and the antecedents of the current state of affairs can be traced back to the early 1980s.
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This article is published in Journal of Operations Management.The article was published on 2008-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 137 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Offshoring & Service (business).
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