The role of functional conflict in international buyer-seller relationships: Implications for industrial exporters

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 567-575

  Skarmeas, Dionysis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Functional conflict; International channel relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744544953     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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