The Regional Performance Impacts in the Supply Chain integration: Evidence from East Africa Basic Metal Industry

Subject Areas : Business Management

Alie Wube Dametew ¹ , Birehanu Beshah ² , Frank Ebinger ³

1 - PhD Candidate, School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa University Institute of Technology-Ethiopia and Faculty of Engineering Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm-Germany.
2 - School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa University Institute of Technology,Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
3 - Faculty of Engineering Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm-Germany

Received: 2018-11-08 Accepted : 2018-12-24 Published : 2021-06-01

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