Information technology and business performance in agile manufacturing: An empirical study in textile Industry

Proceedings - International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations, ITNG 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 543-549

  Zerenler, Muammer ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing; Business performance; Information technologies systems

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

BUSINESS PERFORMANCES; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34548118387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITNG.2007.111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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