Developments in the call centre industry:analysis, changes and challenges

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Burgess John.; (K. John); Connell Julia, 1956-
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: London New York
Publication Dates: 2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; 39
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Carrier Form: xv, 205 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0415357020 (hbk.)
9780415357029 (hbk.)
0203003004 (ebk.)
9780203003008 (ebk.)
Index Number: F626
CLC: F626.12
Call Number: F626.12/D489
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Developments in the call centre sector : an overview / John Burgess and Julia Connell -- Offshoring call centres : the view from Wall Street / Snigdha Srivastava and Nik Theodore -- Work organisation and employee relations in Indian call centres / Phillip Taylor and Peter Bain -- German call centres between service orientation and efficiency : "the polyphony of telephony" / Claudia Weinkopf -- A national survey of Korean call centres / Byoung-Hoon Lee and Hye-Young Kang -- Skill and info-service work in Australian call centres / Bob Russell -- Gender, skills, and careers in UK call centres / Susan Durbin -- Community unionism in a regional call centre : the organiser's perspective / Al Rainnie and Gail Drummond -- Agency and constraint : call centre managers talk about their work / Maeve Houlihan -- How "Taylorised" is call centre work? : the sphere of customer-practice in Greece / Aikaterini Koskina -- Escaping the electronic birdcage : workplace strategies in Swedish call centres / Antoni Lindgren and Per Sederblad.