Learning to procure complex performance: A comparative study of highways agencies in the UK and the Netherlands

Procuring Complex Performance: Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 120-138

  Hartmann, Andreas ^a   Davies, Andrew ^a   Frederiksen, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84892380772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203842058     Document Type: Chapter

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