Supply chain management competency and firm financial success

Journal of Business Logistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 214-226

  Ellinger, Alexander E ^a   Natarajarathinam, Malini ^b   Adams, Frank G ^a   Brian Gray, J ^a   Hofman, Debra ^c   O'Marah, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Gartner Supply Chain Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Altman Z score; Delphi method; Financial performance; Financial SCM connection; SCM competency; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055192560     PISSN: 07353766     EISSN: 21581592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2158-1592.2011.01018.x     Document Type: Article

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