From buyer to integrator: The transformation of the supply-chain manager in the vertically disintegrating firm

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-91

  Parker, Geoffrey G ^a,b,c,d   Anderson Jr , Edward G ^b,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Technology and Policy Program

^h GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integration; New product development; Organization design; Outsourcing; Supply chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037973200     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2002.tb00185.x     Document Type: Article

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