Service quality in the private banking business

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-195

  Horn, Carsten ^a   Rudolf, Markus ^a  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Partial least squares; Private banking; Service quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955790437     PISSN: 15554961     EISSN: 1555497X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11408-011-0154-1     Document Type: Article

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