The impact of unions on operations strategy

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-157

  Pagell, Mark ^a   Handfield, Robert ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor relations; Operations strategy; Reengineering; Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040524250     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2000.tb00330.x     Document Type: Article

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