The rhetoric of the consumer and customer control in China

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-25

  Gamble, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Consumer control; Customers; HRM; Retailing; Service sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847283338     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017007073609     Document Type: Review

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