Assessing the effect of industry clockspeed on the supply chain management practice-performance relationship

Supply Chain Management: An International Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-248

  Chavez, Roberto ^a   Fynes, Brian ^b   Gimenez, Cristina ^a   Wiengarten, Frank ^a  

^a ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Contingency planning; Contingency theory; Industry clockspeed; Republic of Ireland; Supply chain management; Supply chain management performance; Supply chain management practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860374278     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598541211227081     Document Type: Article

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