Unintended responses to a traditional purchasing performance metric

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 150-156

  Emiliani, M L ^a   Stec, D J ^a   Grasso, L P ^a  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Manufacturing resource planning; Pricing; Purchasing techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644432154     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540510606197     Document Type: Article

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