Emergence of business markets - A critical realist foundation

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 316-323

  Ehret, Michael ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundaries of the firm; Business marketing; Critical realism; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877810053     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.02.014     Document Type: Article

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