Buyer animosity in business to business markets: Evidence from the French nuclear tests |
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Authors: | Ron Edwards [Author Vitae] Anne-Marie Gut [Author Vitae] Felix Mavondo [Author Vitae] |
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Institution: | a Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, PO Box 527, Frankston, 3199, Australia b Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, PO Box 527, Frankston, 3199, Australia c Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, PO Box 527, Frankston, 3199, Australia |
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Abstract: | Academic studies of buyer reaction to unpopular political events in the country of origin of products have focused on consumer markets. This paper aims to extend Klein, Ettenson and Morris' Klein, J., Ettenson, R., & Morris, M. (1998). The animosity model of foreign product purchase: An empirical test in the People's Republic of China. Journal of Marketing, 62(1), 89-101] concept of consumer animosity to industrial markets by comparing industrial and consumer buyer reaction to the nuclear tests conducted by France in the Pacific in the mid-1990s. It investigates whether firms in the B2B sector were affected more than those in B2C markets, whether entry mode was significant, and examines the way in which firms in the two market sectors responded. The results show that buyer animosity was less pronounced in industrial than in consumer markets. They also show that entry mode can influence the experience of animosity. |
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Keywords: | Buyer animosity Buyer behavior Nuclear tests B2B markets Entry mode |
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