Manufacturing practices and strategy integration: Effects on cost efficiency, flexibility, and market-based performance

Decision Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 427-457

  Swink, Morgan ^a,c   Narasimhan, Ram ^a   Kim, Soo Wook ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Operations Strategy and Survey Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844536452     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2005.00079.x     Document Type: Article

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