Success factors for collaboration management in manufacturing companies

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-221

  Friedli, Thomas ^a   Kurr, Michael A ^a   Camp, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b Best Practice Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Collaboration management; Dynamics of collaborations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745750835     PISSN: 17442370     EISSN: 17442389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2006.009857     Document Type: Article

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