Consumer decision-making, salespeople's adaptive selling and retail performance

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-129

  Sharma, Arun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer; Retail; Salespeople

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013401092     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(99)00090-9     Document Type: Article

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