Solution business models: Transformation along four continua

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 705-716

  Storbacka, Kaj ^a   Windahl, Charlotta ^a   Nenonen, Suvi ^a   Salonen, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business model; Solution business; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884125551     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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