Service quality measurement in the Chinese corporate banking market

International Journal of Bank Marketing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 305-327

  Guo, Xin ^a   Duff, Angus ^a   Hair, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; China; Corporate finances; Customer services quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349085905     PISSN: 02652323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02652320810894389     Document Type: Article

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