Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access
ISSN: 2090-4541
ISSN: 2090-4541
Arthur T House
Maine Woods Biomass Exports, LLC, USA
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl
This presentation focuses on factors motivating the trend toward the enhanced duration of a buyer-seller relationship which will lead to long-term contractual relationships in an effort to contribute to a better understanding of the driving forces of trust and commitment. It will also focus on their impact on the importing firms��? performance in an exponentially expanding market context. Traditional sales of wood chips exported from mostly North American suppliers who are concluded as discrete transactions or spot market transactions. In the business world and in academia, the reference to a discreet transaction is one that relationships can be built upon, however, it is in its pure form, one that transpires having had no history between the parties, and nothing ever has been nor ever will be. This is akin to there being money on one side of the ocean and the commodity (Wood Chips) on the other and the one discrete transaction in the offering (spot sale) and no more expectation to follow. At the core of trust and commitment, marketing is the exchange that is profitable to parties involved in the exchange. The concept of exchanges as it applies to trust and commitment marketing is viewed from either a transaction cost analysis approach or a social exchange theory approach. The ultimate goal in developing the enduring relationship is to foster and maintain a competitive advantage over rival firms in the industry.
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