The contribution of manufacturing strategy involvement and alignment to world-class manufacturing performance

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 282-302

  Brown, Steve ^a   Squire, Brian ^b   Blackmon, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Operations management; Strategic manufacturing; World class manufacturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846708805     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570710725554     Document Type: Article

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