Can service quality predict spectators’ behavioral intentions in professional soccer?

Managing Leisure

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 162-178

  Theodorakis, Nicholas D ^a   Alexandris, Kostantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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EID: 85009552813     PISSN: 13606719     EISSN: 1466450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13606710802200852     Document Type: Article

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