Industrial buyer behavior at trade shows: implications for selling effectiveness
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Trade shows are turning out to be an important market medium, facilitating greater contacts between sales people and their buying publics. Research indicates that 78% of attendees in industrial trade shows were involved in one or more purchase decisions during such events. Technical information is also highly sought during these shows. Thus, marketers can exploit this by effectively positioningtheir products. Personal in-exhibit sources were more utilized sources of information than personal out-of-exhibit contacts.
Publication Name: Journal of Business Research
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0148-2963
Year: 1992
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Collaborative relationships for component development: the role of strategic issues, production costs, and transaction costs
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A study was conducted to analyze the function played by strategic and cost factors in determining whether component development is carried out as an arm's-length arrangement or as a highly collaborative partnership. Implications for managers responsible for developing components with an outside partner were proposed. Results indicated the primacy of production and transaction costs in accommodating the shift to collaborative development of novel industrial components.
Publication Name: Journal of Business Research
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0148-2963
Year: 1999
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Antecedents to buyer-seller collaboration: an analysis from the buyer's perspective
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The factors that influence the relationship between the buyers and their industrial suppliers were discussed. Transaction cost analysis and resource dependence paradigms were used to detemine the collaborative structure buyer-seller relations in the aerospace and automobile parts firms. The results showed the positive relationship between transaction costs and buyer dependence.
Publication Name: Journal of Business Research
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0148-2963
Year: 1992
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