Spiritual climate of business organizations and its impact on customers' experience

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-332

  Pandey, Ashish ^a   Gupta, Rajen K ^b   Arora, A P ^b  

^a Pragati Leadership Institute Pvt Ltd   (India)

^b MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Customers' service experience; Spiritual climate

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349206367     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9965-z     Document Type: Article

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