Graduate students' perceptions of supply chain skills for supply chain managers

Benchmarking

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 276-299

  Rahman, Shams ^a   Qing, Nie ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Importance performance matrix analysis; Supply chain management skills; Supply chain manager; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898450129     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-01-2012-0002     Document Type: Article

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