Chapter Outsourcing Rules in the Public and the Private Sector

There have been outsourcing and insourcing trends for decades. Most often benefits and costs of outsourcing are compared from the purely financial side. However, risks are those that eventually determine whether a particular product/service/asset should be outsourced or not. The aim of this chapter...

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Main Author: Grubišić Šeba, Mihaela (auth)
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Language:English
Published: InTechOpen 2018
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