Pub Date : 2024-02-16DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2300454
Aaron D. Arndt, Rhett Epler, Kenneth Evans, Sama Ashouri
Closing is an essential part of selling. However, academic research related to closing has been quite limited and detailed observational research has not yet been conducted. This research analyzes ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2289701
Aline Isabelle Lanzrath, Christian Homburg, Robin-Christopher M. Ruhnau
Given the pressing talent shortage and the need for well-educated recruits in business-to-business (B2B) sales, understanding how to increase university graduates’ low interest in this profession i...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2284638
Michel Tremblay
Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, this study investigates the impact of service-sales ambidexterity on employee behavior and customer outcomes in retail. Using a sample of 518 employ...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2282806
Ryan Mullins, Kevin S. Chase, Scott B. Friend
Research on buyer-seller exchange consistently acknowledges the role of uncertainty as an influential factor in decision-making for both exchange parties. However, a fragmented understanding of unc...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2266142
Brian N. Rutherford, Ryan L. Matthews, Lucy M. Matthews, Diane R. Edmonson
This study examines the impact of a major global disruption on the international sales force. A total of twenty-three qualitative interviews, with eighteen international sales executives, were coll...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2266144
Jan Altenscheidt, Sophie-Charlotte Ernst, Christian Schmitz
Sales representatives (reps) frequently exhibit a lack of lead management effort and sales managers need to determine why so that they can address the problem. Scant insights exist into which leade...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2267184
Valter Silva Faia, Valter Afonso Vieira, Colin Gabler
Research has shown that self-efficacy influences individual performance. However, individuals often work in teams, and perceptions of the group’s ability also impact performance. Drawing on social ...
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2237195
Mathew S. Isaac
When basketball aficionados discuss the late Kobe Bryant, they often point out that the superstar’s illustrious 20-year career can be neatly divided into two halves: the ten seasons in which he wore the number 8 on his jersey and the ten seasons in which he wore the number 24. Experts have remarked that each half of Kobe’s career would independently warrant induction into the National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Fame.1 Although he made his mark in a very different arena than Kobe, Andris “Andy” Zoltners—who passed away in April at the age of 77—also cultivated two legendary careers within a single lifetime. In Andy’s case, these two careers were not sequential but occurred largely in parallel and fortified one another during his five extraordinary decades as a Sales Management professor and consultant.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2202325
Adam Rapp, Maria Rouziou
As the new Editor of the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, I have a vision of what I would like to achieve during my tenure and how the journal can support sales scholars and practitioners around the world. One of these notions is that I would like to provide a short editorial at the beginning of each issue that offers publishing advice, avenues for future research, or some perspective on the field that could add value to our readers, as well as engage individuals that may not be as familiar with what we are accomplishing within the sales discipline. To realize this goal, I plan to invite someone in the field to coauthor each editorial that has expertise in a specific area that is outside of my realm. For the second half of this editorial, Dr. Maria Rouziou joins me with expertise and insight on “Women in Sales.” The purpose of this article is to briefly discuss where we have been as a field and research discipline and where we are heading. As we are all getting back face-to-face, I have started networking and talking to more scholars in our field once again. Through these interactions, I have had a very profound realization–somehow, I became one of the ‘more seasoned’ researchers in our field (to put it nicely)! It seems like yesterday that I was attending AMA and the New Horizons Conference as a young doctoral student and meeting other young scholars such as Nick Lee, Stephanie Boyer, Nick Panagopoulos, Stacey Schetzsle, Chris Plouffe, Gabe Gonzalez, and many others. Surprisingly, many of these first interactions were 20 years ago and now, these are the individuals who have helped shape the field and are thought leaders in the direction we are moving. Although many young scholars see a bright and vibrant sales research field today, that was not always the case (as those mentioned above can attest). Many of us entered the field as ‘strategy’ or ‘relationship marketing’ researchers for fear of being considered ‘a sales gal/guy’ (a term I heard more than once and not in a positive light) and pigeon-holed as someone with limited research potential. While this may seem odd today for current early career scholars, believe me when I say that sales has not always been viewed in the same manner. As evidenced in Williams and Plouffe’s (2007, p. 417) 20-year content analysis, a great deal of sales research was being published but “of the articles appearing in the study time period, JM, JMR, and MS published a mere 10% of the total.” It was not uncommon to hear faculty both within and outside of the marketing discipline critique the field for being atheoretical or more vocational in nature. This state of affairs extended beyond research into academic curriculum as well. Sales courses, programs, and centers have flourished within universities and colleges throughout the United Stated and become apparent at a global level over the past few years. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were just a handful of these selling-focused programs. T
作为《个人销售与销售管理》杂志的新主编,我有一个愿景,我想在我的任期内实现什么,以及杂志如何支持世界各地的销售学者和实践者。其中一个想法是,我想在每期的开头提供一篇简短的社论,提供出版建议,未来研究的途径,或者一些可以为我们的读者增加价值的领域的观点,以及吸引那些可能不熟悉我们在销售学科中所取得的成就的人。为了实现这一目标,我计划邀请在我的领域之外的特定领域拥有专业知识的人共同撰写每篇社论。在这篇社论的后半部分,Maria Rouziou博士和我一起分享了她对“销售中的女性”的专业知识和见解。本文的目的是简要讨论我们作为一个领域和研究学科的发展方向以及我们的发展方向。当我们都回到面对面的时候,我又开始和我们领域的更多学者交流。通过这些互动,我有了一个非常深刻的认识——不知何故,我成为了我们这个领域“更有经验”的研究人员之一(说得好点)!作为一名年轻的博士生,我参加美国医学协会和新视野会议,并会见了其他年轻学者,如尼克·李、斯蒂芬妮·博耶尔、尼克·帕纳戈波洛斯、斯泰西·舍茨勒、克里斯·普洛夫、加布·冈萨雷斯和许多其他人,这一切就像昨天一样。令人惊讶的是,许多这样的第一次互动是在20年前,而现在,这些人帮助塑造了这个领域,是我们前进方向的思想领袖。尽管许多年轻的学者看到了今天一个光明而充满活力的销售研究领域,但情况并非总是如此(如上所述可以证明)。我们中的许多人以“战略”或“关系营销”研究员的身份进入这个领域,因为害怕被认为是“销售女孩/家伙”(这个词我听过不止一次,而且不是正面的),害怕被认为是研究潜力有限的人。虽然这在今天看来似乎有些奇怪,但请相信我,人们并不总是以同样的方式看待销售。正如Williams和Plouffe(2007,第417页)20年的内容分析所证明的那样,大量的销售研究被发表,但“在研究期间出现的文章中,JM, JMR和MS发表的文章仅占总数的10%。”听到市场营销学科内外的教师批评这个领域是理论性的或更职业的,这并不罕见。这种情况也延伸到学术课程的研究之外。在过去的几年里,销售课程、项目和中心在美国的大学和学院里蓬勃发展,并在全球范围内变得明显。在20世纪90年代末和21世纪初,只有少数几个以销售为重点的项目。然而,今天,许多销售课程是市场营销部门的支柱和商学院(以及其他领域)的核心。学术研究会议和销售竞赛也是如此。曾经有一段时间,销售研究与关系营销会议结合在一起,没有独立的焦点;而且,只有一个主要的销售竞争和几个较小的区域竞争。现在,这个领域充满了会议和竞赛,可以说,我们已经变得有点分散,现在被迫在这么多可用的选择中分配时间和财力。用类似的时间框架来比较学术事务的状态和该领域的实践状态是很有趣的。在21世纪初,我们听到了去中介化的呼声,以及互联网将使销售人员死亡的说法。我们很快发现,随着互联网和基于crm的技术的出现,销售人员在建立关系方面变得更加重要,而可靠的销售方法至关重要。随着销售的重点越来越多地放在教育目的上,研究领域的销售也受到了关注。虽然负面的刻板印象仍然存在(可能永远存在),但销售人员的职业角色变得更加明显。今天,我们再次听到了对数字营销的担忧和对人工智能取代销售人员的恐惧。然而,我相信我们大多数人都注意到,技术在这个领域变得越突出,销售人员的人情味就变得越重要。根据最近的市场趋势和预测,《美国新闻与世界报道》(2021)表明,新产品和专业产品的增长将导致销售代表的招聘增加。美国劳工统计局(Bureau of Labor Statistics)预计,2021年至2031年间,销售代表的就业人数将增长3.7%。 虽然在实践中有预期的增长,但它不会没有挑战和更高的期望。根据Salesforce.com的销售状况年度报告(2022),销售人员将被期望:(1)通过用更少的资源实现更困难的销售目标来最大化绩效影响,(2)满足不断增长的买家期望,(3)提升
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08853134.2023.2197234
Stephanie M. Mangus
s editorial staff
的编辑人员
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