Evolutionary patterns in e-business strategy

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 921-945

  Caniato, Federico ^a   Cagliano, Raffaella ^a   Kalchschmidt, Matteo ^b   Golini, Ruggero ^b   Spina, Gianluca ^a  

^a Politecnico di Milano   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Internet; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349185770     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570910986229     Document Type: Article

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