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Quantifying opportunity costs associated with adding manufacturing flexibility

YOUNG K. SON Department of Management, Bernard M. Baruch College, The City University of New York, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, 10010, USA
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CHAN S. PARK Department of Industrial Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 36849, USA
Pages 1183-1194 | Received 01 Apr 1989, Published online: 30 Mar 2007

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