Stressors, leadership substitutes, and relations with supervision among industrial salespeople

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-269

  Lapidus, Richard S ^b   Roberts, James A ^a   Chonko, Lawrence B ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 0031142020     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-8501(96)00093-4     Document Type: Article

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