Flexible Manufacturing Organizations: Implications for Strategy Formulation and Organization Design
Academy of Management ReviewPublished 1 October 1988
Patricia L. Nemetz, Louis W. Fry
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Patricia L. Nemetz, Louis W. Fry, Flexible Manufacturing Organizations: Implications for Strategy Formulation and Organization Design, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Oct., 1988), pp. 627-638
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