Knowledge management adoption in supply chain: Identifying critical success factors using fuzzy DEMATEL approach

Journal of Modelling in Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 160-178

  Patil, Sachin K ^a   Kant, Ravi ^a  

^a SARDAR VALLABHBHAI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Critical success factor; Fuzzy; Fuzzy DEMATEL; Knowledge management; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954540414     PISSN: 17465664     EISSN: 17465672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JM2-08-2012-0025     Document Type: Article

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