The "home team" approach to service quality: Linking and leveraging communications between human resources, operations and marketing

Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 57-70

  Little, Ann B ^a   Little, David W ^a  

^a HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77953497402     PISSN: 15440508     EISSN: 19394691     Source Type: Journal    
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