Does implementation of a JIT-with-customers strategy change an organization's structure?

Industrial Management & Data Systems

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1077-1094

  Green, Kenneth W ^a   Inman, R Anthony ^b  

^a HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Just in time; Modelling; Organizational structures; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DECENTRALIZATION; JUST IN TIME; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33749387210     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570610710764     Document Type: Article

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