Customer interaction in environmental innovation: The case of cloth diaper laundering

Service Business

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-158

  Ángel del Brío, Jesús ^a   Fernández, Esteban ^a   Junquera, Beatriz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Customer; Environmental innovation; Environmental performance; Laundering company; Service

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547754447     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-006-0011-x     Document Type: Article

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