The effect of industry clockspeed on supply chain co-ordination: Classical theory to sharpen an emerging concept

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 553-571

  Meijboom, Bert ^a   Voordijk, Hans ^b   Akkermans, Henk ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design; Innovation; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547443962     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150710763577     Document Type: Article

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