What do we really know about services?

Service Business

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Akehurst, Gary ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic development; Innovation; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349175087     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-006-0015-6     Document Type: Article

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