Interplant coordination, supply chain integration, and operational performance of a plant in a manufacturing network: a mediation analysis

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 550-568

  Cheng, Yang ^a,b   Chaudhuri, Atanu ^a   Farooq, Sami ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Coordination; Global supply chain; Integration; Manufacturing; Network; Operational performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987984819     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/SCM-10-2015-0391     Document Type: Article

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