... Value analysis Outsourcing Transaction costs Service quality assurance Partnership Competitive strategy Kennedy (1993) conducted some experiments in outsourcing and concluded that several companies across the country found it cheaper and more efficient to outsource their legal work...

... relations, their impact on information systems, the overall impact of these on joint action or joint activities between firms, and the role of economic dependence. Joint ventures Economic cooperation Partnership Aligning activities and strategies between firms through joint action can result...

... the relationships between the various factors that affect JVs. Joint ventures Strategic alliances International cooperation Trust Partnership The last decade has witnessed an increasing globalization of the business environment caused partly by the rapid integration of the economies of industrialized...