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    Customer reactions to downsizing: when and how is satisfaction affected?

    Organizational downsizing to cut costs frequently creates new, “hidden costs” that neutralize potential increases in productivity. Customer dissatisfaction is such an overlooked downsizing outcome. Using longi...

    Johannes Habel, Martin Klarmann in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2015)

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    The role of leadership in salespeople’s price negotiation behavior

    Salespeople assume a key role in defending firms’ price levels in price negotiations with customers. The degree to which salespeople defend prices should critically depend upon their leaders’ influence. Howeve...

    Sascha Alavi, Johannes Habel, Paolo Guenzi in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2018)

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    Price negotiating for services: elucidating the ambivalent effects on customers’ negotiation aspirations

    Although customers frequently negotiate the prices of both goods and services, academic research has mostly examined negotiations in goods contexts, neglecting the fact that negotiations for services may be di...

    Sascha Alavi, Johannes Habel, Marco Schwenke in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2020)

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    No conversion, no conversation: consequences of retail salespeople disengaging from unpromising prospects

    On encountering a prospect whom they believe unlikely to make a purchase, some retail salespeople adopt a sales strategy of limiting engagement with the customer, relying on a “no conversion, no conversation” (NC

    William L. Cron, Sascha Alavi in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2021)

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    Customer-oriented salespeople’s value creation and claiming in price negotiations

    Although customer orientation is widely endorsed as a crucial salesperson characteristic, little is known about its effect in price negotiations with customers. This study rectifies this omission and argues fo...

    Roland Kassemeier, Sascha Alavi in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2022)

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    A theory of predictive sales analytics adoption

    Given the pervasive ubiquity of data, sales practice is moving rapidly into an era of predictive analytics, using quantitative methods, including machine learning algorithms, to reveal unknown information, suc...

    Johannes Habel, Sascha Alavi, Nicolas Heinitz in AMS Review (2023)

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    A theory of sales system shocks

    Research primarily explores sales phenomena during normal periods. However, triggering events (e.g., natural disasters, security catastrophes, pandemics) can create sales system shocks that profoundly impact s...

    Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Nawar N. Chaker in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2024)

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    Research on sales and ethics: Map** the past and charting the future

    The scholarly literature at the intersection of sales and ethics is vast and, therefore, difficult to summarize. To explore the state of the sales–ethics landscape, the authors apply probabilistic topic modeli...

    Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Heiko Wieland in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2024)