Power structure and profitability in assembly supply chains

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1599-1616

  Chen, Lucy Gongtao ^a   Ding, Ding ^b   Ou, Jihong ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business   (China)

Author keywords

assembly system; profitability; supply chain power structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908129476     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12169     Document Type: Article

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