International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace
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Author: Charles W. L. Hill Dr, G. Tomas M. Hult
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To explain: The global supply chain functions for logistics.
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To explain: The global supply chain for a company manufacturing mobile phones.
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