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What is materialism? Testing two dominant perspectives on materialism in the marketing literature

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|Sep 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mmcks-2015-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2069-8887 | Journal ISSN: 1842-0206
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Published on: Sep 1, 2015
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