Improving logistics outsourcing through increasing buyer-provider interaction

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 633-640

  Gadde, Lars Erik ^a   Hulthén, Kajsa ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Industrial networks; Interaction; Logistics outsourcing; Third party logistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149179643     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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