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Dr. Piltan developed a model for evaluating the performance of business partnerships as well as a model for evaluating factors influencing the partnership performance over time. He applied his models to a partnership in the Canadian forest products supply chain. His results help managers make more informed decisions for their business partnerships.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD) - graduated in 2016