Achieving competitive advantage in the Mexican footwear industry

Benchmarking

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 289-305

  Ojeda Gomez, Julieta ^a   Simpson, Mike ^a   Koh, S C Lenny ^a   Padmore, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Footwear industry; Globalization; Mexico; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249688509     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770710753103     Document Type: Article

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