Servitization and networking: Large-scale survey findings on product-related services

Service Business

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-82

  Bikfalvi, A ^a   Lay, G ^b   Maloca, S ^b   Waser, B R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

^c LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Large scale survey findings; Multifactorial regression; Networking; Servitizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873733867     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-012-0145-y     Document Type: Article

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