Strategic alliance formation and the effects on the performance of manufacturing enterprises from supply chain perspective

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3856-3870

  Yang, Jie ^a   Lai, Kee Hung ^b   Wang, Jifu ^a   Rauniar, Rupak ^a   Xie, Hongming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON VICTORIA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

alliance formation; Chinese manufacturing; dyadic quality performance; innovation capability; supply chain

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

ALLIANCE FORMATION; CHINESE MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE; INNOVATION CAPABILITY; MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCES; ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES; QUALITY PERFORMANCE;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84929508809     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.974843     Document Type: Article

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