Gathering and using information for the selection of trading partners

European Journal of Marketing

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 143-162

  Nijssen, Edwin J ^a,b   Douglas, Susan P ^b   Calis, Gilles ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business to business marketing; Export; Information retrieval; Partnering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004600052     PISSN: 03090566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090569910249210     Document Type: Article

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