Organisational learning and value creation in business markets

European Journal of Marketing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1612-1641

  López Sánchez, José Ángel ^a   Santos Vijande, María Leticia ^b   Trespalacios Gutiérrez, Juan Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Learning organizations; Markets; Spain; Value added

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149402866     PISSN: 03090566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090561011079819     Document Type: Article

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