Hunting for bargains has long been an important aspect of shopping behavior. One of the distinctive characteristics of bargain shopping is forward-looking price expectation, where one discount offer is evaluated in relation to another deeper discount anticipated in the future. Two experimental...

Recent meta-analyses of the channels relationship literature show gaps in the research. The current study seeks to fill several of those gaps by examining the effect of cultural characteristics on relational constructs in retail buyer-supplier settings in the U.S. and Japan. The study also...