Implementation and management framework for supply chain flexibility

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 303-319

  Kumar, Vinod ^a   Fantazy, Kamel A ^a   Kumar, Uma ^a   Boyle, Todd A ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flexible organizations; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646742372     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390610658487     Document Type: Article

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