Conflict and its governance in horizontal cooperations of logistics service providers

International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 385-400

  Wallenburg, Carl Marcus ^a   Raue, Jan Simon ^b  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Corporate governance; Innovation; Performance management; Servicing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957639340     PISSN: 09600035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09600031111131940     Document Type: Article

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