Supply chain management, knowledge management capability, and their linkages towards firm performance

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 940-964

  Wong, Wai Peng ^a   Wong, Kuan Yew ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Knowledge capability; Knowledge management; Malaysia; Organizational performance; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455137603     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637151111182701     Document Type: Article

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