Ren, Z. Justin; Zhou, Yong-Pin - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 2, pp. 369-383
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We model the call center as a G/G/s queue with customer abandonment. Each call has a revenue potential, and we model the...