Production system instability and subcontracted labor

Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 8-1-8-22

  Sacks, Rafael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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