The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity Outsourcing in the services sector might seem like a sea change, but it really just continues previous trends, according to Robert Kennedy, executive director of the William Davidson Institute, and Ajay Sharma, professor of business administration, at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. The two have written a book, "The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity", which outlines the opportunities they see for managers.
The Offshore Nation by Atul Vashistha & Avinash Vashistha Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill
Outsourcing to India (See review) by Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Springer, ISBN: 3-540-20855-0
The Call Center Dictionary The Complete Guide to Call Center and Customer Support Technology Solutions 3rd Edition by Madeline Bodin & Keith Dawson, CMP Press 2002, ISBN: 1-57820-095-4
The Experience How to Wow Your Customers and Create a Passionate Workplace by Lior Arussy, CMP Press 2002, ISBN: 1-57820-306-6
The Complete Guide to Customer Support How to Turn Technical Assistance Into a Profitable Relationship by Joe Fleischer & Brendan Read, CMP Press 2002, ISBN: 1-57820-097-0
Maximizing Call Center Performance 136 Innovative Ideas for Increasing Productivity and Customer Satisfaction by Madeline Bodin, CMP Press 1999, ISBN: 1-57820-026-1
Customer Service Over the Phone Techniques and Technology for Handling Customers Over the Phone 5th Edition by Stephen Coscia, CMP Press 1999, ISBN: 1-57820-046-6
Call Center Savvy How to Position Your Call Center for the Business Challenges of the 21st Century by Keith Dawson. CMP Press 1999, ISBN: 1-57820-050-4
The Call Center Handbook The Complete Guide to Starting, Running, and Improving Your Call Center 5th Edition by Keith Dawson. CMP Press 2003, ISBN: 1-57820-305-8
Business Process Outsourcing: Process, Strategies, and Contracts (with disk) by John K. Halvey, Barbara Murphy Melby
Shared Services: Mining for Corporate Gold by Barbara Quinn, Robert Cooke, Andrew Kris, Robert S. Cooke. Financial Times Prentice Hall, ISBN 0273644556 Provides an understanding of what shared service is. Outlines how to assess its viability for an organization and how to proceed with planning and implementing it.
The Knowledge Economy in India by Frank-Jürgen Richter, Richter Frank-Jurgen, Parthasarathi Banerjee, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd (Jan 2003), ISBN: 1-4039-0110-4