Reconceptualizing professional service firm innovation capability: Scale development

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1264-1273

  Hogan, Suellen J ^a   Soutar, Geoffrey N ^b   McColl Kennedy, Janet R ^a   Sweeney, Jillian C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capability theory; Innovation capability; Professional service firms; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955162978     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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