Innovation management in service firms: A research agenda

Service Business

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 177-193

  Crevani, Lucia ^a   Palm, Kristina ^a   Schilling, Annika ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Innovation management; Practice; Research agenda; Service firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958243339     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-011-0109-7     Document Type: Review

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