The impact of forecasting on operational performance: Mediation effects through flexibility enablers

Operations Management Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 129-137

  Kalchschmidt, Matteo ^a   Nieto, Yvan ^b   Reiner, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Forecasting; GMRG; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952071327     PISSN: 19369735     EISSN: 19369743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12063-010-0036-0     Document Type: Article

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