Competition or Compensation: Supplier Incentives under the American and Japanese Subcontracting Systems

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 598-618

  Taylor, Curtis R ^a   Wiggins, Steven N ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; JUST IN TIME; MANUFACTURING; SUBCONTRACTING;

JAPAN; USA;

EID: 0031403938     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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