Maintenance and spare parts inventories in man-made humanitarian disasters

Management Research News

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1065-1080

  Tysseland, Bernt E ^a,b  

^a Royal Norwegian Naval Academy   (Norway)

^b MOLDE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aid agencies; Disasters; Inventory control; Maintenance; Organizational theory; Spare parts

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350350013     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170910998291     Document Type: Article

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