Capital budgeting for volume flexible equipment

Decision Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-184

  Tannous, George F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance; Economics; Management and Strategy; Production Operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030514250     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1996.tb01714.x     Document Type: Article

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