Chikán, Attila http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1655-1969
Sprague, Linda G.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Korean Society for Quality Management (TEMP-KSQM)
Article History
Received: 30 January 2019
Accepted: 29 March 2019
First Online: 10 May 2019
Authors’ information
: Attila Chikán is Professor Emeritus of Corvinus University of Budapest, where he is Director of Competitiveness Research Centre. He is Past President of International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management and of Federation of European Production and Industrial Management Societies. A former Minister of Economic Affairs of the Hungarian Government, he is on the boards of several business organizations.Linda G. Sprague (+ 2013) was a HBS graduate. Main stations of her academic career included the University of New Hampshire (for three decades, creating parterships with European universities including IMD in Switzerland, Cranfield in England, and IESE in Barcelona) and the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai (ten years). She was among the key actors of APICS’s famous “MRP Crusade”. She served as President of the Decision Sciences Institute and the International Society for Inventory Research.
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