Designing and managing collaborative enterprises in the automotive industry

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-152

  Binder, Mario ^a,b   Clegg, Ben ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Semantics/ GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Collaborative governance; Contingency planning; Core competence; Managing enterprises; Supply networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649131923     PISSN: 13675567     EISSN: 1469848X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13675560701427346     Document Type: Article

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