Organizational empowerment and service strategy in manufacturing

Service Business

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 445-462

  He, Yuanqiong ^a   Sun, Hongyi ^b   Lai, Kin Keung ^c   Chen, Yun ^d  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Business performance; Manufacturing; Organizational empowerment; Service strategy; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938748353     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-014-0233-2     Document Type: Article

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