The importance of being local? Learning among Taiwan's enterprise solutions providers

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-49

  Yeh, Chun Tsai ^a   Miozzo, Marcela ^a   Vurdubakis, Theo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Localization; Manufacturing resource planning; Taiwan; Transfer processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344478806     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390610636869     Document Type: Article

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