Operational Governance in Horizontal Cooperations of Logistics Service Providers: Performance Effects and the Moderating Role of Cooperation Complexity

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 53-74

  Schmoltzi, Christina ^a   Wallenburg, Carl Marcus ^a  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alliance complexity; Horizontal alliances; Structural equation modeling; Survey methods; Transportation and logistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859890175     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-493X.2011.03262.x     Document Type: Article

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