Tapping Supplier Innovation

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 37-52

  Wagner, Stephan M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Buyer supplier relationship; Fuzzy front end; Innovation; New product development; Regression analysis; Supplier integration; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859902939     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-493X.2011.03258.x     Document Type: Article

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