Quality improvement in competing supply chains

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 262-270

  Xie, Gang ^a   Wang, Shouyang ^a   Lai, K K ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Competition; Coordination; Quality improvement; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED SUPPLY CHAINS; INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN; NONCOOPERATIVE GAME; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80052381736     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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