A study of supplier selection factors for high-tech industries in the supply chain

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-413

  Wu, Mei Ying ^a   Weng, Yung Chien ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Partnership; Structural equation modelling; Supplier selection factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951230036     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783361003606662     Document Type: Article

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