Buyer-seller relationship development episodes: Theories and methods

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 161-170

  Schurr, Paul H ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Business analysis; Critical incident technique; Modelling; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047180175     PISSN: 08858624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/08858620710741869     Document Type: Article

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