Trust plays a crucial role in all societies, particularly within the Business-to-Business context where inter-firm relationships, impelled by globalization and the extended enterprise, require a much higher degree of trust to succeed. This 26th volume of
Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing examines the value of trust within the B2B context to provide a better understanding of its importance in organizations.
New Insights on Trust in Business-to-Business Relationships: A Multi-Perspective Approach applies different theoretical and methodological perspectives to the mechanisms and processes that promote trust between customer and supplier in contexts such as e-commerce, high involvement relationships, industrial service and international cultures. The authors identify the consistencies and distinctions of antecedents, processes, and consequences of trust in various B2B contexts and offer alternative approaches that contribute to a better understanding of the subtleties and multi-faceted nature of trust and trust-related management.
The book provides advanced original insights on trust for researchers and practitioners working within Management, Purchasing and B2B Marketing, and offers practical tools to build lasting and successful business relationships.
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION: TRUST IN BUYER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: EVIDENCE FROM ADVANCED, EMERGING AND DEVELOPING MARKETS;
Houcine Akrout Chapter 2. A GLOBAL EXAMINATION OF COGNITIVE TRUST IN BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS; Sandra S. Graça and James M. Barry
Chapter 3. A MODEL TO ENHANCE THE PERCEIVED TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SMALLAND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES SELLING NATURAL ESSENTIAL OILS THROUGH E-MARKETPLACESNozibele Gcora, Pardon Blessings Maoneke and Naomi Isabirye
Chapter 4. ENHANCING ELECTRONIC MARKETS FOR INDUSTRIAL SERVICES BY TRUST FEATURES; Wolfgang Bauer, Jürgen Dorn and Ivan Pryakhin
Chapter 5. INTERPERSONAL AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST IN HIGH INVOLVEMENT CUSTOMER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: ANTECEDENTS, CONSEQUENCES AND MODERATORS; Houcine Akrout and Antonella La Rocca
Chapter 6. TRUST IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH AGRI-FOOD DISTRIBUTION; Laila Ouhna
Chapter 7. WINDOW TO NEW RESEACH APPROACHES: HOW USING SIMON’S SCISSORS CUTS PERPLEXITY IN STRATEGY THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE; Gabor Nagy, Carol C. Megehee, and Arch G. Woodside
Houcine Akrout is Associate Professor of Marketing at INSEEC School of Business and Economics, France. His research has been published in numerous highly-ranked international journals, including
Information & Management and
Industrial Marketing Management.
Karine Raïes is Assistant Professor of Marketing at INSEEC School of Business and Economics, France. Her research has been published in numerous highly ranked academic journals, including the Journal of Business Research and Recherche et Applications Marketing.
Arch G. Woodside is Visiting Research Professor at Coastal Carolina University, USA. He is the author/editor of 450 journal articles and over 50 books, and is the series editor of Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing and Advances in Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research (Emerald).