Co-creating customer-focused solutions within business networks: A service perspective

Journal of Service Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 593-611

  Hakanen, Taru ^a   Jaakkola, Elina ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business development; Business network; Co creation; Customers; Integrated solution; Service concept

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864454056     PISSN: 17575818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09564231211260431     Document Type: Article

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