Social capital, Information sharing and performance evidence from china

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1440-1462

  Li, Yina ^a   Ye, Fei ^a   Sheu, Chwen ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buyer supplier relationships; collaboration; Empirical; Information management; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913584189     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: 17586593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJOPM-03-2013-0132     Document Type: Article

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