The development of post-project buyer-seller interaction in service-intensive projects

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1318-1327

  Ojansivu, Ilkka ^a   Alajoutsijärvi, Kimmo ^b   Salo, Jari ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business relationships; Interaction; Post project stage; Project marketing; Service intensive projects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888197094     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.06.009     Document Type: Article

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