Linking the viable system and many-to-many network approaches to service-dominant logic and service science

International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-42

  Barile, Sergio ^a   Polese, Francesco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Customer service management; Networking; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986133013     PISSN: 1756669X     EISSN: 17566703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17566691011026586     Document Type: Article

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