dc.contributor.author	Baxter, RA
dc.contributor.author	Woodside, AG
dc.date.accessioned	2011-09-29T23:04:34Z
dc.date.available	2011-09-29T23:04:34Z
dc.date.copyright	2010-09-02
dc.date.issued	2010-09-02
dc.description.abstract	This paper addresses questions about the effect that social bonds between relationship partners have on the way in which a supplier allocates resources to its relationship with a buyer. Two key questions the paper addresses are the following. In business markets, does strength of social bonds that a supplier perceives with a specific customer influence the supplier’s allocations of financial, physical, time, and intangible resources to this customer relative to other customers? If social bonding does uniquely impact supplier allocation of resources to customers, does the impact vary by length of the supplier-customer relationship? The paper proposes and empirically examines three alternative theories (honeymoon, maturity, and imprinting theories) that indicate how suppliers’ perceptions of social bonds with customers influence the suppliers’ allocations of resources and also examines the proposition that social bonding contributes uniquely to supplier allocations. Honeymoon theory is the proposal that the positive influence of social bonding on supplier resource allocation is greatest in relatively new supplier-customer relationships versus long-term relationships. Maturity theory proposes the opposite—the positive influence of social bonding on supplier resources allocation is greatest in long-term versus new relationships. Imprinting theory proposes that no interaction occurs between the effects of social bonding and length of supplier-customer relationship on supplier resource allocations. The theoretical grounding for the study extends the IMP stream of research, using ideas including the concepts of relationship marketing theory and Homans’ framework for social behavior.
dc.identifier.citation	The 26th IMP Conference (IMP'10), Budapest, Hungary
dc.identifier.roid	16919	en_NZ
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10292/2169
dc.publisher	Diamond Congress Ltd (organiser)
dc.relation.uri	http://www.impgroup.org/paper_view.php?viewPaper=7574
dc.rights	NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in (see Citation). The original publication is available at (see Publisher's Version)
dc.rights.accessrights	OpenAccess
dc.title	Social bonds and supplier allocation of resources to business customers
dc.type	Conference Contribution
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