Measuring retail productivity: What really matters?

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 417-426

  Dubelaar, Chris ^a   Bhargava, Mukesh ^b   Ferrarin, David ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEK Consulting   (Australia)

Author keywords

Modeling; Productivity; Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344248221     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(00)00160-0     Document Type: Article

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