Consortium benchmarking: Collaborative academic-practitioner case study research

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1137-1145

  Schiele, Holger ^a   Krummaker, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case study; Collaborative research; Consortium benchmarking; Relevance; Rigor

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959944620     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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