On the nature of customeremployee relationships

Marketing Intelligence & Planning

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 297-306

  Butcher, Ken ^a   Sparks, Beverley ^b   O'Callaghan, Frances ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Customers; Employee relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986100920     PISSN: 02634503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02634500210441549     Document Type: Article

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