A professional services firm's competence development

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1068-1081

  Awuah, Gabriel Baffour ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competence and competence development; Network of exchange relationships; PSFs

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648831708     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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