Supply chain agility: Analysing the enablers

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-91

  Faisal, M N ^a   Banwet, D K ^a   Shankar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

agility; graph theory; Interpretive Structural Modelling; ISM; Small and Medium Enterprises; SMEs; supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049085325     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2007.015682     Document Type: Article

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