Cooperative versus corporate governance of LTL networks

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 493-506

  Klaas Wissing, Thorsten ^a   Albers, Sascha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate strategy; Governance; Logistics service providers; LTL networks; Organisation; Partnering alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649598279     PISSN: 13675567     EISSN: 1469848X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13675561003776828     Document Type: Article

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