Inter-organizational quality management: The use of contractual incentives and monitoring mechanisms with outsourced manufacturing

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1540-1556

  Handley, Sean M ^a   Gray, John V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agency theory; outsourcing; quality management; supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888342725     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01351.x     Document Type: Article

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