Supply chain management and the challenge of organizational complexity-Methodological considerations

Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management: In Collaboration with Magnus Westhaus

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-73

  Johannessen, Stig ^a  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Methodology; Organizational Complexity; Radical Process Thinking; Supply Chain Management; Systems Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892024495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-7908-1636-1_5     Document Type: Chapter

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