Exercised power as a driver of trust and commitment in cross-border industrial buyer-seller relationships

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-103

  Leonidou, Leonidas C ^a   Talias, Michael A ^a   Leonidou, Constantinos N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commitment; Conflict; Exporting; Power; Relationships; Satisfaction; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549009837     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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