Purpose: A significant amount of research has shown that drivers of employee attitudes, and behaviors leading to outcome variables such as turnover intentions, are strongly influenced by national culture. This study focuses on the difference in relationships among some critical variables...

Purpose: In a banking context, this study applies uncertainty management theory (UMT) to test the impact of managerial indecisiveness on salespersons' trust in their manager, perceived role ambiguity and turnover intentions. In addition, the moderating role of managers' leadership style on the...

Contents: Preface / Jay Mulki and Fernando Jaramillo -- 1 An exploration of sales activities from a service ecosystems perspective / Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Heiko Wieland and Bruno Lussier -- 2 From sales force automation to digital transformation: how social media, social CRM, and artificial...

Purpose: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing frontier. One promising area for AI is its potential to assist sales managers in providing salesperson feedback. Despite this promise, little work has been done within the business-to-business (B2B) sales domain to investigate the...