Reputation Transfer to Enter New B-to-B Markets Measuring and Modelling Approaches

This book focuses on the development and cross-cultural testing of a construct of reputation rooted in resource-based theories. No study has ever asked organizational customers to rate the importance of a supplier’s positive reputation on their buying decision. The results of the survey contribute s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Falkenreck, Christine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
Series:Contributions to Management Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book focuses on the development and cross-cultural testing of a construct of reputation rooted in resource-based theories. No study has ever asked organizational customers to rate the importance of a supplier’s positive reputation on their buying decision. The results of the survey contribute substantially to our understanding of reputation measuring and managing. This book is the first to highlight the cross-link between reputation, reputation transfer and culture, and argues that to develop one cross-culturally valid construct of reputation, which can be used in both B-to-B and B-to-C contexts is neither useful nor appropriate
Physical Description:XXII, 229 p. 43 illus., 3 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9783790823578