Building a corporate supply function

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 39-52

  Johnson, P Fraser ^a   Leenders, Michiel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Organizational structure change; Purchasing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649118778     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-493X.2008.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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