Developments in the call centre industry : analysis, changes and challenges / edited by John Burgess and Julia Connell.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 39.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xv, 205 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0203003004
- 9780203003008
- 9786610548996
- 6610548994
- Call centers
- Telecommunication
- 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
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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.
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.
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