Marketplace Masters: How Professional Service Firms Compete to Win

Marketplace Masters: How Professional Service Firms Compete to Win

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-253

  Lowe, Suzanne C ^a  

^a GRadiant Research   (United States)

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