Paradigms in service research

Journal of Service Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 560-585

  Tronvoll, Bård ^a,d   Brown, Stephen W ^b   Gremler, Dwayne D ^c   Edvardsson, Bo ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Classification; Epistemology; Methodology; Ontology; Paradigm; Service research

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054016150     PISSN: 17575818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09564231111174951     Document Type: Article

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