Internal marketing and the moderating role of employees: An exploratory study

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-195

  Pantouvakis, Angelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Employee satisfaction; Health sector; HRM; Internal marketing; Learning organisation; Servicescape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859890260     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2012.647846     Document Type: Review

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