Skills needed in supply chain-human agency and social capital analysis in third party logistics

Management Decision

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 143-159

  Dubey, Rameshwar ^a   Gunasekaran, Angappa ^b   Childe, Stephen J ^c   Papadopoulos, Thanos ^d  

^a MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human agency theory; Partial least squares; Social capital theory; Supply chain skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040037306     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-04-2017-0428     Document Type: Article

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