Explaining sales force turnover:: Alternative perspectives

Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 37-61

  Wotruba, Thomas R ^a   Tyagi, Pradeep K ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67650050365     PISSN: 1051712X     EISSN: 15470628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J033v03n02_03     Document Type: Article

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