Leadership practices, competitive priorities, and manufacturing group performance

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1080-1105

  Kathuria, Ravi ^a   Partovi, Fariborz Y ^b   Greenhaus, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Leadership; Manufacturing industries; Operations management; Strategic manufacturing; Unites States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957097666     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443571011082535     Document Type: Article

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