Assessments of equivocal salesperson behavior and their influences on the quality of buyer-seller relationships
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Crosno, Jody
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West Virginia Univ, Coll Business & Econ, POB 6025,1601 Univ Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506 USAWest Virginia Univ, Coll Business & Econ, POB 6025,1601 Univ Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
Crosno, Jody
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Dahlstrom, Robert
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Miami Univ, Farmer Sch Business, 800 E High St, Oxford, OH 45056 USA
BI Norwegian Business Sch, Nydalsveien 37, N-0442 Oslo, NorwayWest Virginia Univ, Coll Business & Econ, POB 6025,1601 Univ Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
Dahlstrom, Robert
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Friend, Scott B.
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Miami Univ, Farmer Sch Business, 800 E High St, Oxford, OH 45056 USAWest Virginia Univ, Coll Business & Econ, POB 6025,1601 Univ Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
Friend, Scott B.
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[1] West Virginia Univ, Coll Business & Econ, POB 6025,1601 Univ Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
[2] Miami Univ, Farmer Sch Business, 800 E High St, Oxford, OH 45056 USA
[3] BI Norwegian Business Sch, Nydalsveien 37, N-0442 Oslo, Norway
In buyer-supplier relationships, salespeople engage in behaviors that buyers may (or may not) view as deceptive. Despite the salesperson's underlying miscreant or innocent motives, buyers have a difficult time attributing the intentionality of salesperson behaviors after the fact. While extant research has explicated various governance mechanisms to mitigate the occurrence of opportunistic behaviors a priori, scholarship is not as well-versed in understanding (a) the relational factors that influence the buyer's interpretation of debatably opportunistic salesperson behaviors and (b) the buyer's retributive response within the ongoing relationship. To bring clarity to these issues, the authors examine relationship factors that influence the likelihood of perceived salesperson opportunism following equivocal salesperson acts. Utilizing data from industrial buyers in the U.S. healthcare industry, this study shows that buyer specific investments are related positively to attributions of salesperson guile, whereas contractual agreements are related negatively to attributions of guile. Relationship solidarity moderates these effects. Further, we find that attributions of salesperson guile lead to perceived salesperson opportunism, which in turn results in buyers lowering their expectations of relationship continuity and increasing their retributive responses. We corroborate these findings with cross-sectional survey data from a sample of industrial buyers. Collectively, these findings hold implications with regard to the role of the buyer's attribution of salesperson guile for a specific behavior as a determinant of perceived opportunism in general, while also outlining conditions under which buyers are inclined to engage in retributive opportunism.
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Univ Missouri, Henry W Bloch Sch Management, 5110 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO 64110 USAUniv Missouri, Henry W Bloch Sch Management, 5110 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO 64110 USA
Johnson, Jeff S.
Sohi, Ravipreet S.
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Univ Nebraska, Coll Business Adm, 512 N 12th St, Lincoln, NE 68588 USAUniv Missouri, Henry W Bloch Sch Management, 5110 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO 64110 USA
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Dubai Int Acad City, Inst Management Technol, Mkt, Dubai, U Arab EmiratesDubai Int Acad City, Inst Management Technol, Mkt, Dubai, U Arab Emirates
Waheed, Kareem Abdul
Gaur, Sanjaya S.
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Auckland Univ Technol, AUT Business Sch, Sales & Mkt, Auckland, New ZealandDubai Int Acad City, Inst Management Technol, Mkt, Dubai, U Arab Emirates