Local Resources and Procurement Practices in Humanitarian Supply Chains: An Empirical Examination of Large-Scale House Reconstruction Projects

Decision Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 621-646

  Matopoulos, Aristides ^a   Kovács, Gyöngyi ^b   Hayes, Odran ^c  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c WMH   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Disaster Relief; Housing Reconstruction; Humanitarian Supply Chains; Procurement Practises; Resource Based View; Supply Chain Design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906499668     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/deci.12086     Document Type: Article

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