Toward a relevant agenda for warehousing research: literature review and practitioners’ input

Logistics Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Davarzani, Hoda ^a,b   Norrman, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Literature review; Material handling; Research agenda; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920848033     PISSN: 1865035X     EISSN: 18650368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12159-014-0120-1     Document Type: Article

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