Investigating virtual enterprise models: Literature review and empirical findings

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 148, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-157

  Esposito, Emilio ^a   Evangelista, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Literature review; Questionnaire survey; Taxonomy of the virtual enterprise; Virtual enterprise

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

EID: 84890860229     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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