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attributes. International Journal of Production Economics, 62, 33–43
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Cagliano, R., Caniato, F., & Spina, G. (2004). Lean, agile and traditional supply: how do they impact
manufacturing performance. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 10, 151–164.
Chen, C.T., Lin, C.T., & Huang, S.F. (2006). A fuzzy approach for supplier evaluation and selection
in supply chain management, International Journal of Production Economics, 102, 289–301.
Christopher, M. (2000). The agile supply chain - competing in volatile markets. Industrial Marketing
Management, 29, 37–44.
Dickson, G. (1966). An analysis of vendor selection systems and decisions. Journal of Purchasing, 2
(1), 5–17.
Elkins, D.A., Huanga, N.J, & Alden, J.M. (2004). Agile manufacturing systems in the automotive
industry. International Journal of Production Economics, 91, 201–214.
Field, A.P. (2005). Factor analysis on SPSS. In: Discovering statistics using SPSS. 2nd ed. London,
UK: Sage.
Ghosh, S., & Jintanapakanont, J. (2004). Identifying and assessing the critical risk factors in an
underground rail project in Thailand: a factor analysis approach, International Journal of Project
Management, 22, 633–643.
Goldman, S.L., Nagel, R.N., & Preiss, K. (1995). Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations—
Strategies for Enriching the Customer. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
Gunasekaran, A. (1998). Agile manufacturing: Enablers and an implementation framework.
International Journal of Production Research, 36 (5), 1223–1247.
Gunasekaran, A. (1999). Editorial: Design and implementation of agile manufacturing systems.
International Journal of Production Economics, 62, 1–6.
Heide, J.B., & John, G. (1990). Alliances in industrial purchasing: the determinants of joint action in
buyer–supplier relationships. Journal of Marketing Research, 27 (1), 24–36.
Hellard, R.B. (1995). Project Partnering Principle and Practice. Thomas Telford Publications,
London.
Hu, L., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis:
Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 1–55.
Jolliffe, I. T. (2002). Principal component analysis, Springer series in statistics (2nd). New York:
Springer.
Lee, Y., & Lee, H. (2011). Application of factor analysis for service R & D classification: A case study
on the Korean ICT industry. Expert Systems with Applications, 38, 2119–2124.
Luo, X., Wu, C., Rosenberg, D. & Barnes, D. (2009). Supplier selection in agile supply chains: An
information-processing model and an illustration. Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management,
15, 249–262.
Masson, R., Iosif, L., MacKerron, G., & Fernie, J. (2007). Managing complexity in agile global
fashion industry supply chains. International Journal of Logistics Management, 18 (2), 238–254.
Ocal, E.M, Oral, E.L, Erdis, E., & Vural, G. (2007). Industry financial ratios—application of factor
analysis in Turkish construction industry. Building and Environment, 42, 385–392.
Parasuraman, A., Grewal, D., & Krishnan, R. (2004). Marketing research. Boston, New York:
Houghton Mifflin Company.
Power, D. J., Sohal, A.S., & Rahman, S.U., (2001). Critical success factors in agile supply chain
management: an empirical study. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics
Management, 31 (4), 247–265.
Prater, M., Biehl, M., & Smith, M. (2001). International supply chain agility—tradeoffs between
flexibility and uncertainty. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 21(5–
6), 823–839.
Sarkis, J. (2001). Benchmarking for agility. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 8 (2), 88–107.
Smith, L. I. (2002). A tutorial on principal components analysis.
Song, M., Fu R.X., Zhu C., Xin Z. H. (2007). Study on the agile supply chain management based on
agent. The Journal of China Universities of Posts and Telecommunications, 14, 115-118.
Stevens, J. (1986). Factor analysis. In: Applied multi varied statistics for the social sciences.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Storey, J., Emberson, C., & Reade, D., (2005). The barriers to customer responsive supply chain
management. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 25 (3), 242–260.
Strattona, R., & Warburton, R.D.H. (2003). The strategic integration of agile and lean supply.
International Journal of Production Economics, 85,183–198.
Tziakas, D.N, Chalikias, G.K., Kaski, J.C, Kekes, A., Hatzinikolaou, E.I, Stakos, D.A, Tentes , I.K.,
Kortsaris, A.X, & Hatseras, D.I. (2007). Inflammatory and anti-inflammatory variable clusters and
risk prediction in acute coronary syndrome patients: A factor analysis approach, Atherosclerosis,
193, 196–203.
Weber, C.A., Ellram, L.M., (1993). Supplier selection using multi-objective programming: a decision
support system approach. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics
Management, 23 (2), 3–14.
Xia, W., & Wu, Z. (2007). Supplier selection with multiple criteria in volume discount environments.
Omega, 35, 494–504.
Yusuf, Y.Y., Sarhadi, M., & Gunasekaran, A. (1999). Agile manufacturing: the drivers, concepts and
attributes. International Journal of Production Economics, 62, 33–43