To empower or not to empower your sales force? An empirical examination of the influence of leadership empowerment behavior on customer satisfaction and performance.

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  2005

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  Journal of Applied Psychology

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  Medicine, Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.945PMID 16162066
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