Integration: Attitudes, patterns and practices

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 308-323

  Vallet Bellmunt, Teresa ^a   Rivera Torres, Pilar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Attitudes integration; Formative indicators; Integration; Integration concept; Integration measurement; Integration scope; Patterns integration; Practices integration; Reflective indicators; Scales validation; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878828731     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-04-2012-0116     Document Type: Article

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