An empirical investigation of the contribution of strategic sourcing to manufacturing flexibilities and performance

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 683-718

  Narasimhan, Ram ^a   Das, Ajay ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing Flexibility; Strategic Sourcing; Structural Equation Modeling; Supply Chain Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033262823     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb00903.x     Document Type: Article

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