101.
This study examines three trust-building processes and outcomes in sales manager-salesperson relationships. This study, based
on a sample of more than 400 business-to-business salespeoples from a variety of industries, shows two trust-building processes
(predictive and identification) to be significantly related to salesperson trust in the sales manager. Interpersonal trust
was found to be most strongly related to shared values and respect. Trust was directly related to job satisfaction and relationalism,
and indirectly related to organizational commitment and turnover intention.
Thomas G. Brashear (brashear@mktg.umass.edu) (Ph.D., Georgia State University) is an assistant professor of marketing in the Isenberg School
of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
James S. Boles (jboles@gsu.edu) (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is an associate professor of marketing in the Robinson College of Business
at Georgia State University. His research has appeared in a variety of journals, including the
Journal of Marketing, the
Journal of Business Research, the
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the
Journal of Retailing, the
Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, and the
Journal of Applied Psychology. His areas of research interest include personal selling, sales management, key and strategic account management, and business
relationships.
Danny N. Bellenger (mktdnb@langate.gsu.edu) (Ph.D., University of Alabama) is currently chairman of the Marketing Department in the Robinson
College of Business at Georgia State University. His research has appeared in a number of academic journals including the
Journal of Marketing Research, the
Journal of Marketing, the
Journal of Advertising Research, the
California Management Review, the
Journal of Retailing, the
Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Industrial Marketing Management, and the
Journal of Business Research. He has authored four monographs and four textbooks on marketing research, sales, and retailing.
Charles M. Brooks (brooks@quinnipiac.edu) (Ph.D., Georgia State University) is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Marketing
and Advertising at Quinnipiac University. His research has appeared in the
Journal of Business Research, the
Journal of Retailing, Marketing Theory, and the
Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice.
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