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Insights on Outsourcing

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Outsourcing: What’s in it for us? For them? Where are we headed?

Originally, copyright © 2004 by Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A).

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Marcus, A. (2015). Insights on Outsourcing. In: HCI and User-Experience Design. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6744-0_15

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