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Original Articles

Internal Marketing, Nurse Loyalty and Relationship Marketing

An Exploratory Study of German Nurses

, PhD, , PhD & , PhD
Pages 63-82 | Received 29 Aug 2003, Accepted 20 Sep 2003, Published online: 23 Sep 2008

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