Impacts of business environment changes on global manufacturing outsourcing in China

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 138-151

  Zhang, Abraham ^a   Huang, George Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Integer programming; Manufacturing network; Outsourcing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857937501     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598541211212889     Document Type: Article

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