A survey of manufacturing strategy and technology in the Chinese furniture industry

European Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 484-496

  Robb, David ^a   Xie, Bin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Advanced manufacturing technology; Manufacturing in China; Operations strategy; Production management; Quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043014713     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(03)00079-3     Document Type: Article

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