Supply Chain Visibility and Social Responsibility: Investigating Consumers’ Behaviors and Motives

Tim Kraft
Tim Kraft
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Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904
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León Valdés
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Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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Yanchong Zheng
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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904

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León Valdés

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Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260

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Yanchong Zheng

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cover image Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Volume 20, Issue 4

Fall 2018

Pages 601-800

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Received:January 03, 2017
Accepted:October 09, 2017
Published Online:June 01, 2018

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Tim Kraft, León Valdés, Yanchong Zheng (2018) Supply Chain Visibility and Social Responsibility: Investigating Consumers’ Behaviors and Motives. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 20(4):617-636.

https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2017.0685

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