The past and the future of business marketing theory

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 394-404

  Wilkinson, Ian F ^a,b   Young, Louise C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Business relations and networks; Complex adaptive systems; Dynamics and evolution; Mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877826199     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.02.007     Document Type: Article

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