Strategic operations management: The new competitive advantage

Strategic Operations Management: The New Competitive Advantage

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-325

  Lowson, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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