How professors of operations management view service operations?

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 339-355

  Nie, Winter ^a   Kellogg, Deborah L ^b  

^a Garvin School of International Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic view; Service assumptions; Service characteristics; Service operations management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005373582     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1999.tb00312.x     Document Type: Article

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