Complex performance, process modularity, and the spatial configuration of production

Procuring Complex Performance: Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 78-96

  Araujo, Luis ^a   Spring, Martin ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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