An empirical study of manufacturing flexibility of exporting firms in China: How do strategic and organizational contexts matter?

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 738-751

  Ling yee, Li ^a   Ogunmokun, Gabriel O ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competence and capability theory; Contingency perspective; Firm performance; Flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549091792     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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