Product design for life-cycle mismatch

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 497-512

  Bradley, James R ^a   Guerrero, Héctor H ^a  

^a The College of William Mary Mason School of Business Department of Finance   (United States)

Author keywords

Life cycle; Part obsolescence; Procurement; Product design; Sourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349090625     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3401/poms.1080.0056     Document Type: Article

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