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Original Articles

Measuring Consumer Ethnocentrism: An Assessment of Reliability, Validity and Dimensionality of the CETSCALE in a Developing Market

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Pages 188-208 | Received 09 Oct 2015, Accepted 01 Jan 2016, Published online: 08 Feb 2016

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