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BL
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785596
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b605611
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Jack Buffington.
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| Title & Author
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An easy out : : corporate America's addiction to outsourcing\ Jack Buffington.
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| Publication Statement
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Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007
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(185 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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0313345031
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: 1281110523
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: 9780313345036
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: 9781281110527
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| Contents
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The need for productivity --; The history and myths of outsourcing --; Strange bedfellows --; the opportunists of outsourcing --; Market myopia, Enron, and political overreaction --; The economics of who's right and who's wrong --; Screw it, I'll outsource --; The "difficult in" over the "easy out" --; Fear of a global planet --; The last of the spirits --; Solutions, what if--; --; Conclusion: get involved.
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Argues that outsourcing is a neutral proposition, versus a positive or a negative one, and that companies too often assume that outsourcing will solve their problems through cost reduction while they overlook opportunities to increase real productivity.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Contracting out -- United States.
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Contracting out.
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| LC Classification
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HD2365.J335 2007
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Jack Buffington
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