What is postgraduate marketing education for? Observations from the UK

European Business Review

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 547-566

  Centeno, Edgar ^a   Harker, Michael J ^a   Ibrahim, Essam B ^b   Wang, Lee Wei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Quanta Computer   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Education; Marketing; Postgraduates; SERVQUAL; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849425359     PISSN: 0955534X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09555340810913557     Document Type: Article

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