Looking ahead by looking back: Swift, even flow in the history of manufacturing

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 87-96

  Schmenner, Roger W ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing history; Productivity; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012977335     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2001.tb00069.x     Document Type: Article

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