Impact of Strategic Outsourcing on Operational Control
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Over the past decades, it has been recognised that outsourcing has become a cornerstone for manufacturing strategy. The reasons for outsourcing have been extensively elaborated in academic literature (Kremic et al., 2006, p. 467). Not only has management science embraced the concept of outsourcing, industrial companies have also done so, sometimes combined with different initiatives, such as downsizing or restructuring (Micklethwait & Wooldridge, 1996), or have presented outsourcing under different labels: out-tasking, offshoring, etc. (Beaumont & Kahn, 2005, p. 4). Many have ABSTRACT
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