An empirical investigation of network-oriented behaviors in business-to-business markets

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-180

  Thornton, Sabrina C ^a   Henneberg, Stephan C ^b   Naudé, Peter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business to business markets; Latent interaction; Network oriented behavior; Networking; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938287500     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.05.013     Document Type: Article

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