Performance-based contracting in service supply chains: A service provider risk perspective

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-172

  Selviaridis, Kostas ^a   Norrman, Andreas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Performance based contracting; Risk management; Service industries; Service supply chains; Supply chain management; Transport and distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897107071     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-06-2013-0216     Document Type: Article

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