Systems thinking benefits in supply change management: an illustration of the viable systems model in a Supply Chain

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 227-248

  Chronéer, Diana ^a   Mirijamdotter, Anita ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

lead user; process industry; product development; SCM; Supply Chain Management; Viable System Model; VSM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951713672     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2009.024256     Document Type: Article

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