Knowledge maturity as a means to support decision making during product-service systems development projects in the aerospace sector

Project Management Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 32-50

  Johansson, Christian ^a   Hicks, Ben ^b   Larsson, Andreas C ^c   Bertoni, Marco ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aerospace; Knowledge management; New product development; Product service system; Stage gate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955950284     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20218     Document Type: Article

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