Time, change, and longitudinally emergent conditions: understanding and applying longitudinal growth modeling in sales research

W Bolander, R Dugan, E Jones - Journal of Personal Selling & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Despite calls for increased use of longitudinal data in academic sales research, the
overwhelming majority of published studies utilize cross-sectional designs. Yet, given the …

Ethical climate at the frontline: A meta-analytic evaluation

SB Friend, F Jaramillo… - Journal of Service …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Long-term customer relationships develop over repeated interactions, underscoring the
importance of frontline employees (FLEs) engaging in ethical behaviors. Therefore …

Curbing the undesirable effects of emotional exhaustion on ethical behaviors and performance: A salesperson–manager dyadic approach

B Lussier, NN Hartmann, W Bolander - Journal of Business Ethics, 2021 - Springer
Recent events and popularized stereotypes call into question the ethics of salesperson
behaviors. Although prior research demonstrates that salespeople's emotional exhaustion …

Incentive effects on ethics

TY Park, S Park, B Barry - Academy of Management Annals, 2022 - journals.aom.org
We review and synthesize research on the effects of incentives on ethical and unethical
behaviors. Our review of 361 conceptual and empirical articles, which are scattered across …

Alleviating the negative effects of salesperson depression on performance during a crisis: Examining the role of job resources

B Lussier, L Beeler, W Bolander… - Industrial Marketing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Depression is an important and prevalent issue often overlooked in the sales literature.
Although prior research provides evidence that depression negatively impacts a variety of …

Whom to hire and how to coach them: a longitudinal analysis of newly hired salesperson performance

W Bolander, CB Satornino, AM Allen… - Journal of Personal …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Salesperson hiring decisions are critical for firms, and managers typically accept one of two
viewpoints regarding optimal hiring strategies. The first asserts that prior sales experience …

Moving beyond ethical decision-making: A practice-based view to study unethical sales behavior

I Ameer, A Halinen - Journal of Personal Selling & Sales …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Changes in the business environment are rapidly transforming sales practice and
pressuring the integrity of key actors in sales. Given that unethical sales behavior is a social …

Social anxiety and salesperson performance: The roles of mindful acceptance and perceived sales manager support

B Lussier, M Philp, NN Hartmann, H Wieland - Journal of Business …, 2021 - Elsevier
Social anxiety affects salespeople. Yet little is known about its association with salesperson
performance and the resources that might alleviate its presumably negative impact. Drawing …

To be or not to be: a review of the (un) ethical salespeople literature

A Anand, M Bowen, D Rangarajan - Journal of Business & Industrial …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Despite the prominence of ethics in mainstream marketing and sales literature,
studies on the role of unethical sales practices remain sparse. As a result, we sought to fill …

Analyzing sales proposal rejections via machine learning

P Nguyen, SB Friend, KS Chase… - Journal of Personal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The sales profession is fraught with customer rejection and defections. Understanding why
customers say “no” to a sales proposal is complex given that factors at the organizational …