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Measuring a Multifaceted Concept: A high Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis Towards Internal Marketing

By: Zia Khalid and  Noor Ul Hadi  
Open Access
|Oct 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2021-0014 | Journal eISSN: 2069-8887 | Journal ISSN: 1842-0206
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