Decision making in product development: Are you outside-in or inside-out?

Management Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1299-1312

  Summers, Gary J ^a   Scherpereel, Christopher M ^b  

^a Star Product Development   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile production; Decision making; Just in time; Lean production; Manufacturing resource planning; Product development

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949145811     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740810911957     Document Type: Article

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