Development of a soft network model to improve supply chain management performance of SMEs

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1759-1764

  Ghaderi, Hadi ^a   Darestani, Soroush Avakh ^a   Leman, Zulkiflle ^a   Ismail, Md Yusof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Inter firm collaboration; SCM; SMEs; SMEs union; Soft network

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954987258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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