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Product recalls: What's your offshore production liability?
Author(s) -
Raiborn Cecily A.,
Massoud Marc F.,
Raiborn Mitchell F.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of corporate accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1097-0053
pISSN - 1044-8136
DOI - 10.1002/jcaf.20464
Subject(s) - outsourcing , product (mathematics) , business , offshore outsourcing , production (economics) , quality (philosophy) , product liability , liability , control (management) , offshoring , operations management , commerce , marketing , industrial organization , engineering , finance , management , economics , philosophy , mathematics , geometry , epistemology , macroeconomics
Outsourcing product manufacturing has become a common business practice in the United States. But outsourcing can also mean your ability to exercise quality control is limited. And a growing amount of product safety recalls threatens danger for both your customers and your company. Is it time to reconsider the decision to outsource production? © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.