Creativity for service innovation: A practice-based perspective

Managing Service Quality

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-44

  Giannopoulou, Eleni ^a   Gryszkiewicz, Lidia ^a   Barlatier, Pierre Jean ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Creativity; Practices; Research and technology organizations (RTOs); Resource based view; Service innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890374477     PISSN: 09604529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MSQ-03-2013-0044     Document Type: Article

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