Partner selection for interfirm collaboration in ship design

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 701-717

  Solesvik, Marina Z ^a,b   Encheva, Sylvia ^b  

^a UK and Bodø Graduate School of Business   (Norway)

^b WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Business policy; Collaboration; Design; Partnership; Project evaluation; Ships; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; BUSINESS POLICIES; COLLABORATION DESIGN; CYCLICALITY; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS; INTER-FIRM COLLABORATION; MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; MATHEMATICAL LATTICE THEORY; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; PARTNER SELECTION; PARTNERSHIP SELECTION; POTENTIAL PARTNERS; PROJECT EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SELECTION OF PARTNERS; SHIP DESIGNS; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DESIGN; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SHIPBUILDING;

SHIPS;

EID: 77952912232     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635571011044731     Document Type: Article

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