Managing Differentiation-Integration Duality in Supply Chain Integration

Decision Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 303-339

  Terjesen, Siri ^a   Patel, Pankaj C ^b   Sanders, Nada R ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Integration; Modularity based Manufacturing Practices; Supply Chain Integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859491384     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2011.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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