Company-specific production systems and competitive advantage: A resource-based view on the Volvo production system

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1511-1531

  Netland, Torbjørn H ^a,b   Aspelund, Arild ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Global operations management; Lean; Production systems; Resource based view; VRIO model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888634671     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJOPM-07-2010-0171     Document Type: Article

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