Applying process knowledge for yield variation reduction: A longitudinal field study

Decision Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 159-186

  Field, Joy M ^a   Sinha, Kingshuk K ^b,c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Operations and Management Science Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal Field Study; Process Knowledge; Time Series Analysis; Yield Variation Reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744588688     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2005.00069.x     Document Type: Review

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