Impact of competitiveness on salespeople's commitment and performance

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1328-1334

  Lam, Long W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Affective commitment; Discretionary and citizenship behavior; Dispositional competitiveness; Salespeople

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861756440     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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