THE ROLE OF FOLLOWERS IN SUPPLY CHAINS

Journal of Business Logistics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-84

  Defee, C Clifford ^a   Stank, Theodore P ^b   Esper, Terry L ^b   Mentzer, John T ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Followership; Leadership; Performance; Supply chain; Transformational

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349281270     PISSN: 07353766     EISSN: 21581592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2158-1592.2009.tb00112.x     Document Type: Article

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