Services and organisational innovation: the right mix for value creation

Management Decision

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1117-1134

  Gallego, Jorge ^a   Rubalcaba, Luis ^a   Hipp, Christiane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Organizational innovation; Service industries; Value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879923981     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-11-2012-0446     Document Type: Review

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