Sustaining technology leadership can require both cost competence and innovative competence

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-18

  Schmidt, Glen M ^a   Porteus, Evan L ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost Competence; Manufacturing Strategy; Process Innovation; Product Innovation; Technological Change; Technology leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141943760     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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