Plant roles: Site competence bundles and their relationships with site location factors and performance

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 722-744

  Feldmann, Andreas ^a   Olhager, Jan ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Global production networks; Manufacturing industry; Manufacturing plants; Operations management; Operations strategy; Plant location and layout; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878132887     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJOPM-03-2011-0077     Document Type: Article

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