Humanitarian supply chain performance management: A systematic literature review

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages 592-608

  Abidi, Hella ^a,b   De Leeuw, Sander ^b,c   Klumpp, Matthias ^a  

^a FOM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Humanitarian logistics; Humanitarian supply chains; KPI; Performance management; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915770503     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-09-2013-0349     Document Type: Article

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