Strategic supply chain choices for multi-channel Internet retailers

Service Business

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 317-331

  Metters, Richard ^a   Walton, Steve ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Multi channel distribution; Retail; Supply chain; Theory building; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448981373     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-006-0016-5     Document Type: Article

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