Smart Sourcing: International Best Practice

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With a growing market currently in excess of $150 billion, outsourcing hasbecome a critical boardroom agenda. Meeting this challenge, Andrew and Nada Kakabadse answer key boardroom questions. As one of the largest international surveys on outsourcing, Smart Sourcing highlights what it takes to be ''outsource ready'' and thus become a high performing company.

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Smart Sourcing International Best Practice Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse Smart Sourcing Also by Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse THE GEOPOLITICS OF GOVERNANCE CREATING FUTURES: INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF IS/IT Also by Andrew Kakabadse CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN JAPAN: A PARADOX (with L. Okazaki-Ward) Smart Sourcing International Best Practice Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse Cranfield School Of Management © Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse 2002 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division
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