Invest or divest? on the relative improvement potential in outsourcing manufacturing

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 212-228

  Dabhilkar, M ^a   Bengtsson, L ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capability progression; Empirical research; Manufacturing; Outsourcing; Plant operating performance; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; INVESTMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CAPABILITY PROGRESSION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; MANUFACTURING FUNCTION; MANUFACTURING PLANTS; PLANT OPERATING PERFORMANCE;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 40849083861     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280701830144     Document Type: Article

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