Mechanics of humanitarian supply chain agility and resilience and its empirical validation

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 367-384

  Dubey, Rameshwar ^a   Ali, Sadia Samar ^b   Aital, Padmanabha ^a   Venkatesh, V G ^a  

^a Punjab Agricultural University   (India)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS   (India)

Author keywords

Agility; Factor analysis; Humanitarian supply chain; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896907784     PISSN: 17442370     EISSN: 17442389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2014.059999     Document Type: Article

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