Building strong relationships between services' providers and consumers: Evidence from Poland

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 148-162

  Mitrega, Maciej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN KATOWICE   (Poland)

Author keywords

B2C relationship; Partnership marketing; Poland; Services market

Indexed keywords

EID: 46949104145     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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