What skills are needed to be a humanitarian logistician?

Journal of Business Logistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-258

  Kovács, Gyöngyi ^a   Tatham, Peter ^b   Larson, Paul D ^c  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Haiti earthquake; Humanitarian logistics; Job advertisement; Logistic skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876207004     PISSN: 07353766     EISSN: 21581592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2158-1592.2012.01054.x     Document Type: Article

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