Multi-item models for evaluating managerial and organizational resources in service firms

Service Business

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-257

  Cruz Ros, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Managerial resources; Multi item scales; Organizational resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894267272     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-008-0058-y     Document Type: Article

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