Seeks to create a more complex understanding of the significance attached to vendors' mix elements by resellers in forming patronage choices. Presents data from a 1980s survey of over 1,200 reseller‐buyers. Reviews the results in terms of first, consumer goods and second, convenience products...

Provides insight into the credit offerings of manufacturers via an analysis of data which are unique in several ways. Focuses specifically on the dimensions of the credit package supplied to customers for consumer and industrial goods in both domestic and export markets in the USA and the UK....