Outsourcing engineering commodity procurement

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 436-443

  Parry, Glenn ^a   James Moore, Mike ^b   Graves, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerospace engineering; India; Outsourcing; Procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747850449     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540610682453     Document Type: Article

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