Overcoming the barriers to e-cluster development in a low product complexity business sector

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 924-939

  Adebanjo, Dotun ^a   Kehoe, Dennis ^b   Galligan, Peter ^b   Mahoney, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Food industry; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746353383     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570610678675     Document Type: Article

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