Inter-team coordination activities as a source of customer satisfaction

Human Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-98

  Ambrosini, Véronique ^a   Bowman, Cliff ^a,b,c   Burton Taylor, Sarah ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Management   (United Kingdom)

^c Faculty of Management ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inter team coordination; Performance; Resource based view; Strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846591444     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707075283     Document Type: Article

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