Plant roles and decision autonomy in multinational plant networks

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 489-503

  Maritan, Catherine A ^a   Brush, Thomas H ^b   Karnani, Aneel G ^c  

^a 160 Jacobs Management Center   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Global operations; Operations strategy

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CONTROL DECISIONS; GLOBAL OPERATIONS; MULTINATIONAL PLANT NETWORKS; OPERATIONS STRATEGY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 4243099275     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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