... Publishing Limited 2012 Hines and McGowan (2005, p. 525) believe that “there is a real dearth of research into the nature and character of buyer‐seller relationships in the specific context of the fashion industry, […]”. A context that has experienced rapid changes due to the move towards global...

... Customer loyalty Loyalty programs Loyalty program attributes Resistance to change Apparel retailing US consumers Retailing Buyer‐seller relationships Consumers who are inclined to engage in relationships with retailers (i.e. relationship‐prone consumers) develop higher levels of trust...

.... Opportunities and difficulties for future empirical research are also identified. Sue Hornibrook can be contacted at: s.a.hornibrook@kent.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Buyer‐seller relationships Supply chain management Organizational behaviour Fairness, or justice...

... at the influence of the brand personality of an intangible sport brand on consumer identification and retail spending. Brad D. Carlson can be contacted at: bcarlso8@slu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Brand identity Personality Sports Consumer behaviour Buyer‐seller relationships...

...Harold Boeck; Samuel Fosso Wamba Purpose The aim of this paper is to understand why a collaborative innovation, such as radio‐frequency identification (RFID) technology, engenders seemingly opposite buyer‐seller relationship reactions among members of a supply chain. Design/methodology/approach...

..., obviously, they are going to get priority over anyone else. But they have to be good at what they do (Ed, Tasmanian buyer). Buyer‐seller relationships Fresh foods Qualitative market research Australia Buyers and suppliers are increasingly seeking direct relationships with their trade...

..., across all three sectors, to avoid any possibility of reprisals against suppliers reporting negative aspects of their trading relationships with supermarkets. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Buyer‐seller relationships Supermarkets United Kingdom Suppliers The UK food...

... Group Publishing Limited 2005 Buyer‐seller relationships France Partnership Logistics The way marketing channels are organized and more particularly, the way manufacturers, wholesalers and large retailers interact within them, is a major subject for research, since Stern's (1969...

... (Williamson, 1995 ; Cox, 1999). There are authors, for example, Cox et al. (2003) who consider that power should be at the centre of any study of buyer‐seller relationships; and recent texts have revisited seminal works in the study of power and transaction cost economics (TCE), reappraising them...