Spanning flexibility: Supply chain information dissemination drives strategy development and customer satisfaction

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 390-399

  Zhang, Qingyu ^a   Vonderembse, Mark A ^b   Lim, Jeen Su ^c  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competences; Customer satisfaction; Flexible organizations; Value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747835519     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540610682408     Document Type: Article

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