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Title Developments in the call centre industry : analysis, changes and challenges / edited by John Burgess and Julia Connell
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 205 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; 39
Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 39.
Contents 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
Summary Drawing on contributions from a diverse range of countries including the USA, the UK, India, Australia, South Korea, Germany, Greece and Sweden, this book conducts an analysis of call centres worldwide
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Call centers.
Telecommunication.
telecommunications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- E-Commerce -- Auctions & Small Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- Telemarketing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Mail Order.
COMPUTERS -- Electronic Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- E-Commerce -- Internet Marketing.
Call centers
Telecommunication
Callcenters.
Form Electronic book
Author Burgess, John (K. John)
Connell, Julia, 1956-
LC no. 2005031243
ISBN 0203003004
9780203003008
9786610548996
6610548994
1134248822
9781134248827
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9781280548994
9781134248810
1134248814