Antecedents of project learning and time-to-market during new mobile service development

International Journal of Service Industry Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 120-147

  Blazevic, Vera ^a   Lievens, Annouk ^b   Klein, Evelien ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Innovation; Mobile communications; Projects; Service delivery system; Telecommunications; Time to market

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037247692     PISSN: 09564233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09564230310466010     Document Type: Article

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