Organizational learning in high-technology purchase situations: The antecedents and consequences of the participation of external IT consultants

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 285-299

  Dawes, Philip L ^a   Lee, Don Y ^b   Midgley, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

IT consultants; Organizational learning; Structural modelling; Syntactic information search

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947239829     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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