Exploring maintenance strategies in Chinese product manufacturing companies

Management Research News

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 941-950

  Gebauer, Heiko ^a   Pützr, Felix ^a   Fischer, Thomas ^a   Wang, Chunzhi ^b   Lin, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Maintenance programmes; Manufacturing industries; Preventive maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749105685     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170810920648     Document Type: Article

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