Service outsourcing and disaster response methods in a relief supply chain

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 471-487

  Wang, Xihui ^a,b   Wu, Yunfei ^a   Liang, Liang ^a   Huang, Zhimin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster response; Logistic outsourcing; Perishable goods; Relief supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901881594     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-014-1646-y     Document Type: Article

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