Developing customer loyalty from e-tail store image attributes

Managing Service Quality: An International Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-22

  Yun, Zee Sun ^a   Good, Linda K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer loyalty; Electronic commerce; Services; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846681745     PISSN: 09604529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09604520710720647     Document Type: Article

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