Business intelligence competence, agile capabilities, and agile performance in supply chain An empirical study

International Journal of Logistics Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 356-380

  Sangari, Mohamad Sadegh ^a   Razmi, Jafar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agile capabilities; Agile performance; BI competence; Business intelligence (BI); Structural equation modelling; Supply chain agility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937855044     PISSN: 09574093     EISSN: 17586550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJLM-01-2013-0012     Document Type: Article

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