Moving from products to solutions: Strategic approaches for developing capabilities

European Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 390-409

  Paiola, Marco ^a   Saccani, Nicola ^b   Perona, Marco ^b   Gebauer, Heiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

" Make or buy"; Capabilities; Capital goods manufacturers; Services; Solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877123104     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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