Sales training in a dynamic market: The Singapore service industry

Services Marketing Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 55-69

  Honeycutt Jr , Earl D ^a   Mottner, Sandra ^b   Ahmed, Zafar U ^c  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotel; Managerial perceptions; Sales; Singapore; Training; Training methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 32444449982     PISSN: 15332969     EISSN: 15332977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J396v26n03_04     Document Type: Review

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