Innovative management of logistics and supply chains: The hard times

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling

Volumn 1, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 240-255

  Piranfar, Hosein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Innovation; Learning; Logistics; Relationship; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952963495     PISSN: 17589401     EISSN: 1758941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2009.030644     Document Type: Article

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