Graduate Student Project: Employer Operations Management Analysis

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-30

  Fish, Lynn A ^a  

^a CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

operations management; strategy project; teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983439902     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEB.84.1.18-30     Document Type: Article

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