Towards an ecology of retail financial services: Understanding the persistence of door-to-door credit and insurance providers

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 625-645

  Leyshon, Andrew ^a   Burton, Dawn ^b   Knights, David ^c   Alferoff, Catrina ^c   Signoretta, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL SERVICES; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE; RETAILING;

EID: 1842681771     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3677     Document Type: Article

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