Broker performance for agile/virtual enterprise integration

Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 166-185

  Ávila, Paulo ^a   Putnik, Goran D ^b   Cunha, Maria Manuela ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

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EID: 21944432840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-891-8.ch008     Document Type: Chapter

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