Have U.S. Manufacturing Inventories Really Decreased? An Empirical Study

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 14-24

  Rajagopalan, S ^a   Malhotra, Arvind ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Empirical study; Inventory; Manufacturing; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345820065     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.3.1.14.9995     Document Type: Article

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