Global business process development in a virtual community of practice

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-371

  Smeds, Riitta ^a   Alvesalo, Jukka ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Arthur D Little (Schweiz) AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business process; Communities of practice; Global; Simulation; Telepresence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0142186063     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0953728031000117931     Document Type: Article

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