Recruiting the Wrong Salespeople: Are the Job Ads to Blame?

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 541-550

  Mathews, Brian P ^a   Redman, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0041370259     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-8501(99)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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