The relationships among selected business environment factors and manufacturing strategy: Insights from an emerging economy

Omega

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 287-301

  Amoako Gyampah, Kwasi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Business environment; Emerging economy; Hierarchical regression; Manufacturing strategy

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; DEVELOPED ECONOMIES; EMERGING ECONOMIES; ENVIRONMENT FACTORS; HIERARCHICAL REGRESSION; MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY; MANUFACTURING RESOURCE; MANUFACTURING STRATEGY; RECENT RESEARCHES; STRATEGY CHOICES;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 0037632832     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(03)00049-5     Document Type: Article

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