Industrial Sales People as Market Actors. A Case Study

Authors: John Finch; Susi Geiger

This paper presents a view of sales people as boundary shapers, rather than boundary spanners. Contributing to the perspective of markets as performed through market actors and drawing on situated learning theories, it presents a case study from the upstream petroleum industry that demonstrates how sales personnel negotiate and enact multiple, simultaneous and dynamic market forms in their customer relationships.

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Publish Year: 2008

Conference: Uppsala, Sweden (2008)