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The expert examines the non-financial factors to outsourcing.

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Krajewski and Ritzman (2002) define outsourcing as "allotting work to suppliers and distributors to provide needed services and materials and to perform those processes that the organization does not perform itself." The non financial factors that the company should consider:

1) Whether the activity to be outsourced is ...

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