Information technology safeguards, logistics asset specificity and fourth-party logistics network creation in the food retail chain

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 88-98

  Bourlakis, Constantine ^a   Bourlakis, Michael ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buyers; Data security; Distribution management; Retail management; Suppliers; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844437556     PISSN: 08858624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/08858620510583687     Document Type: Article

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