Customers' motivations for maintaining relationships with service providers

Journal of Retailing

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-37

  Bendapudi, Neeli ^a   Berry, Leonard L ^a  

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EID: 0001944139     PISSN: 00224359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4359(97)90013-0     Document Type: Article

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