A sociological view of costs of price adjustment: Contributions from grounded theory methods

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 553-567

  Zbaracki, Mark J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34748910296     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1330     Document Type: Article

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