Benchmarks of successful salesforce performance

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-104

  Barker, A Tansu ^a,b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0033470450     PISSN: 08250383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1936-4490.1999.tb00616.x     Document Type: Article

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