Managerial antecedents and individual consequences of group cohesiveness in travel service selling

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 56-63

  Baktkus, Kenneth R ^a   Howell, Roy D ^b,c   Parent, C R Michael ^a,b   Hartman, Cathy L ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Marketing ^*  (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031391299     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004728759703500409     Document Type: Article

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