[HTML][HTML] Advancing value-based selling research in B2B markets: A theoretical toolbox and research agenda

J Keränen, D Totzek, A Salonen, M Kienzler - Industrial marketing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Value-based selling (VBS) has become an increasingly important selling practice in
contemporary business-to-business (B2B) markets, but currently most VBS studies are …

Extending agency theory in sales management: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

E Chefor, T Lyngdoh, B Hochstein… - Industrial Marketing …, 2025 - Elsevier
Agency theory has been widely adopted in sales research, yet much is unknown about the
extent of its application to explain and predict sales behaviors in today's dynamic sales …

A boundary tool for multi-stakeholder sustainable business model innovation

MGE Velter, V Bitzer, NMP Bocken - Circular Economy and Sustainability, 2022 - Springer
Sustainable business model innovation cannot reach its full sustainability potential if it
neglects the importance of multi-stakeholder alignment. Several studies emphasize the …

What drives the implementation of customer success management? Antecedents of customer success management from suppliers' and customers' perspectives

M Kleinaltenkamp, K Prohl-Schwenke… - Industrial Marketing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Applications of customer success management are gaining increasing importance globally
across industries. Especially when selling and delivering complex offerings, suppliers need …

Theory development in servitization through the application of fsQCA and experiments

A Salonen, M Zimmer, J Keränen - International Journal of Operations …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explain how the application of fuzzy-set qualitative
comparative analysis (fsQCA) and experiments can advance theory development in the field …

Customer–salesperson price negotiations during exceptional demand contractions

C Cardy, NN Chaker, J Habel… - Journal of Service …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Extant literature has studied how customer–salesperson price negotiations evolve in
“normal” circumstances. However, recent economic recessions illustrate the need to …

Mitigating the effects of COVID-19: an exploratory case study of the countermeasures taken by the manufacturing industry

AS Butt - Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand how manufacturers (both discrete and
process) are managing disruptions amid the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, using UAE as …

Understanding the enduring shifts in sales strategy and processes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

M Giovannetti, A Sharma, D Rangarajan… - Journal of Business & …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major sales strategy and process changes as
many interactions migrated from face-to-face to virtual environments. The nature of the …

Legitimizing Digital Technologies in Open Innovation Ecosystems: Overcoming Adoption Barriers in Healthcare

K Randhawa, W Vanhaverbeke… - California Management …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Highly regulated industries such as healthcare can reap significant benefits from new digital
technologies. However, due to institutional constraints, adopting such technologies is a slow …

Transformational and transactional sales leadership during a global pandemic

S Alavi, PA Ehlig, J Habel - Journal of Personal selling & sales …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Transformational (TFL) and transactional leadership (TAL) are foundational leadership
styles in sales practice and have been intensively studied by past sales research. However …