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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"business relationships"”.
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Service Experience in Business-to-Business Relationships
… explores how service experience impacts on business-to-business relationships. It investigates the role of service encounters in a business-to-business context through examining the characteristics of service encounters in business-to-business markets and how service encounters impact on …
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Explaining Buyer Opportunism in Business-to-Business Relationships
… among firms in the supply chain is necessary for business process execution and relationship success. One phenomenon of great significance to buyer-supplier relationships is opportunism. Opportunism is defined as behavior that is self-interest seeking with guile. It is manifested in behaviors such …
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Virtual mobile networking using always best connected business relationships
… This thesis explores the trends that are forcing business model disruption in the MVNO industry and proposes a technical solution, built around the systems engineering System of Systems (SoS) principles that may be leveraged to help transform the mobile industry into a more competitive environment …
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Social bonds in clients’ business relationships with professional service providers
… in our understanding and management of business relationships through the study of relationship constructs such as loyalty. Researchers have also found a number of different bonds in business relationships. One of these is social bonds which develop between individuals and can impact …
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Business relationships in the automotive and component industries in Portugal
… operate and on the factors that influence the business relationships that are established between the referred companies. The researcher followed a single case study research strategy in order to develop a new and empirically grounded understanding, while favouring contextualisation and …
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Assessing the value of sustainability initiatives in business-to-business relationships
… impact and attract the "green" shopper. The business-to-business (B2B) segment is no different, and many companies utilize proactive sustainability strategies. This thesis examines the important role that environmental sustainability plays within the B2B segment and makes recommendations on …
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Business relationships : a cross-culture management investigation in the UAE construction industry
… patterns and communication styles, different business goals and logic, all of which may be difficult to deal with or interpret. In the present scenario, effective cross-cultural management has become essential for the success of business relationships. The existing literature is mainly …
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The study of business relationships : a case study of the industrial textiles manufacturer
… economy, forming and sustaining strategic business relationships with customers, suppliers, and partners has become a mission-critical imperative for most businesses. This is the also case for the paper machine clothing industry. The organisations search and utilise for the key resources …
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The influence of employee engagement on customer experience in business-to business relationships
… influencing variable on customer experience in a business-to-business environment. Employee engagement is characterised by the level of engagement an employee depicts through attributes such as vigour, dedication and absorption. The study sampled 106 employee respondents and 1,216 customer …
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Service Provisions and Business Relationships in the Digital Era – Four Essays in the B2B Context
… their customers interact with each other in the business-to-business (B2B) context. Against the backdrop of these developments, this thesis considers – in four essays – the changes brought about by both service and sales digitalization. Each essay investigates for one research topic the aspects …
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ESTABLISHING THE CONDITIONS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BRITISH STANDARD FOR COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS (BS 11000) WITHIN THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY
Facilities Management (FM) is focused on people, relationships and partnerships. Up until recently however, there has not been a formal framework that addresses the importance of collaborative business partnerships. In October 2010, British Standards developed the first framework for collaborative …
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The role of business relationships between SMEs and network actors in defining standardization and adaptation strategies of SMEs: insights from business-to-business firms engaged in international activities
This study explores the relationships of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) with actors in business to business (B2B) networks settings in order to identify factors influencing the standardisation/adaptation of SMEs’ marketing strategies. A comparative case study method is implemented using data …
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The relationship between real estate investment trusts and building-centric telecommunications providers
This exploratory paper will examine the business relationships that have developed between REITs and building-centric telecommunications providers (BCTPs), including what types of business relationships are being formed between them, why they are being formed and what is important about these …
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Competencies, capabilities, and relational factors in buyer-supplier Business-to-Business networks
Most of today's knowledge of Business-to-Business marketing is grounded on studies conducted in so-called western countries. Recently some researchers have started to question the validity of concepts, ideas and measures conceived in developed markets to explain business marketing phenomena in …
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Cross cultural business relationship development : from the Turkish point of view : analysis of Turkish manufacturing SMEs
It is incontestable that building business relationships remains a crucial aspect of trade. Since the dawning of civilisation, human societies have grown and expanded mainly through contact facilitated by trade. Relationships that arise from this, continue to define us both socially and …
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Default Risk in the Automotive Supply Network
… and solvency risk, drive the formation of new business relationships between this car-part supplier and a car manufacturer. In this dissertation, I exploit a unique professional database listing suppliers for a set of car components at the car model level. After cleaning the data, I combine …
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Value co-creation between SME suppliers and large customers in the UK organic food sector.
… how value is co-created through interaction in business relationships. In this connection and in the context of larger customers and small and medium-sized suppliers’ (SMEs) dyad, this study identifies the areas of collaboration, how value is co-created and the respective co-created value. This …
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Supply chain relationships in apparel retail product development.
… of this study was to investigate supply chain relationships within the apparel retail product development process under a single site case study setting. Relationship determinants (i.e. drivers, facilitators and barriers) that facilitated or impeded the degree of collaborative efforts between …
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