Third party logistics - A Nordic approach

International Journal of Value Chain Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-204

  Skjoett Larsen, Tage ^a   Halldorsson, Arni ^a   Andersson, Dan ^b   Dreyer, Heidi ^c   Virum, Helge ^d   Ojala, Lauri ^e  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Annual nordic conference on logistics research; Joint research; NOFOMA; Nordic approach; Research methodology; The party logistics; TPL

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447626782     PISSN: 17415357     EISSN: 17415365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJVCM.2006.011185     Document Type: Review

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