Pimps for paradise: missionaries, monetary funds, and marketers

Marketing Intelligence & Planning

Volumn 18, Issue , 2000, Pages 337-345

  Belk, Russell W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumerism; Marketing theory; Religion; Third World

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986077487     PISSN: 02634503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02634500010348923     Document Type: Review

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