Matching product architecture and supply chain configuration

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-31

  Ülkü, Sezer ^a   Schmidt, Glen M ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative product development; modularity; outsourcing; product architecture; product quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951984550     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2010.01136.x     Document Type: Article

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