## Abstract This paper investigates the factors affecting the outsourcing decision of occupational safety and health (OSH) services. I posit several hypotheses following the three main approaches to the make or buy question: (1) the transaction cost theory, (2) the resourceβbased view of the firm,
The make or buy decision
β Scribed by S. A. Bergen
- Book ID
- 110998467
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-6807
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