Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Homophily in Restaurant Atmospherics

Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

  Line, Nathan D ^a   Runyan, Rodney C ^a   Costen, Wanda ^a   Frash, Robert ^b   Antun, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b School of Business and Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

DINEX; homophily; hospitality; restaurant atmospherics; scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861012204     PISSN: 19368623     EISSN: 19368631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19368623.2011.611728     Document Type: Article

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