Organizational values and role stress as determinants of customer-oriented selling performance

Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Flaherty, Theresa B ^a   Dahlstrom, Robert ^b   Skinner, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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EID: 85009629928     PISSN: 08853134     EISSN: 15577813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08853134.1999.10754168     Document Type: Article

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