Supplier competition and its impact on firm[U+05F3]s sourcing strategy

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 55, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-110

  Qi, Lian ^a   Shi, Jim Junmin ^b   Xu, Xiaowei ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sourcing; Supplier competition; Supplier reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925436993     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2015.02.005     Document Type: Article

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