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Outsourcing and offshoring decision making

How to select suitable manufacturing information system outsourcing projects by using TOPSIS method

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Pages 4333-4350 | Received 28 Jan 2018, Accepted 13 Jan 2019, Published online: 01 Feb 2019

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