Marketing perspectives of logistics service providers: Present and future research directions

European Journal of Marketing

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 300-310

  Bourlakis, Michael ^a   Melewar, T C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distribution management; Marketing; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952783083     PISSN: 03090566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090561111107203     Document Type: Editorial

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