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As this book has illustrated, sustainability is a key issue for all organizations and has emerged as a central dimension to the management of outsourcing, both onshore and offshore. The big question is how to integrate sustainability into outsourcing arrangements and secondly how to “do well by doing good”, that is to harness pro-market strategies in order to increase returns on philanthropic investment.
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Babin, R., Nicholson, B. (2012). Steering a Course on Sustainability. In: Sustainable Global Outsourcing. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137035318_7
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