Construction supply chain integration: An elusive goal?

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 319-326

  Briscoe, Geoffrey ^a   Dainty, Andrew ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Customer relations; Supply chain management; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944549574     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540510612794     Document Type: Article

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