An individual business model in the making: a chef's quest for creative freedom

Long Range Planning

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 408-430

  Svejenova, Silviya ^a   Planellas, Marcel ^a   Vives, Luis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; CREATIVES; STRATEGIC RESOURCE;

FUZZY CONTROL;

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MODELING; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EID: 77952583355     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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