A cross-national investigation of student intentions to pursue a sales career

Journal of Marketing Education

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-27

  Karakaya, Fahri ^a   Quigley, Charles ^b   Bingham, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

sales career; sales career intentions; sales job attributes; salesperson attributes; student perception of sales

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952686349     PISSN: 02734753     EISSN: 15526550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0273475310389151     Document Type: Article

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