The internationalization of engineering consulting from a strategy tripod perspective

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1097-1119

  Krull, Elisabeth ^a   Smith, Peter ^a   Ge, Gloria L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

engineering consulting firms; internationalization; strategy tripod

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENGINEERING; GLOBALIZATION; SERVICE SECTOR;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84860167115     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2012.662758     Document Type: Article

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