The manufacturing strategy formation process case study of six Iranian manufacturing companies

IEEM 2007: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 733-737

  Ghazinoory, Sepehr ^a,c   Khotbesara, Rahman Mahdiani ^b,c  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c National Research Institute for Science Policy   (Iran)

Author keywords

Deliberate decisions; Manufacturing strategy; Strategy formation

Indexed keywords

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DELIBERATE DECISIONS; MANUFACTURING STRATEGY; STRATEGY FORMATION;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 40649101218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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