Boosting firm performance via enterprise agility and network structure

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1022-1044

  Yang, Chyan ^a   Liu, Hsian Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Corporate strategy; Enterprise agility; Manufacturing industries; Network structure; Performance; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863437541     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211238319     Document Type: Article

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