Evidence for Turkish industrial salespeople: Testing the applicability of a conceptual model for the effect of effort on sales performance and job satisfaction

European Journal of Marketing

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-51

  Mengüç, Bülent ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Industrial selling; Job satisfaction; Performance; Salesforce; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844441886     PISSN: 03090566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090569610105771     Document Type: Article

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