Driving collaborative improvement processes

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 16, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 368-377

  Middel, R ^a   Gieskes, J ^b   Fisscher, O ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Organization Studies and Business Ethics ^*

^c Public Administration and Technology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaborative improvement; Continuous improvement; Extended manufacturing enterprise

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COLLABORATIVE IMPROVEMENT; EXTENDED MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 31144445413     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280500063285     Document Type: Article

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