Hiring for success at the buyer-seller interface

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 247-255

  Marshall, Greg W ^a   Goebel, Daniel J ^b   Moncrief, William C ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hiring; Salesforce; Selling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037399297     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(02)00435-6     Document Type: Article

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