Managing Financially Distressed Suppliers: An Exploratory Study

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 24-43

  Bode, Christoph ^a   Hübner, Denis ^a   Wagner, Stephan M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Case studies; Organizational learning and knowledge; Qualitative data analysis; Supplier default; Supplier financial distress; Supply chain risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927571525     PISSN: 15232409     EISSN: 1745493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12036     Document Type: Article

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