Are internal manufacturing and external SUPPL.y chain flexibilities complementary capabilities?

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 180-200

  Malhotra, Manoj K ^a   MacKelprang, Alan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Delivery performance; Mix flexibility; Modification flexibility, New product flexibility; SUPPL.y chain flexibility

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; DELIVERY PERFORMANCE; MIX FLEXIBILITY; NEW PRODUCT; SUPPL.Y CHAIN FLEXIBILITY;

INDUSTRY;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857536740     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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