Abstract
Exchange theories posit that trust has an important and favorable influence on dyadic interactions. This paper examines the notion that trust plays a key role in making a seller's tough bargaining strategy successful. In a bargaining experiment, we manipulated subjects' preconceptions about a seller's trustworthiness and bargaining toughness. As hypothesized, a seller's expected trustworthiness-plus-toughness in bargaining led to higher levels of buyer-seller cooperation and agreement and a higher level of buyer concessions.
Keywords
TrustworthinessMicroeconomicsBusinessBargaining powerPsychologySocial psychologyEconomics
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- 1985
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- 11
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 939-939
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- 1243
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Paul H. Schurr,
Julie L. Ozanne
(1985).
Influences on Exchange Processes: Buyers' Preconceptions of a Seller's Trustworthiness and Bargaining Toughness.
Journal of Consumer Research
, 11
(4)
, 939-939.
https://doi.org/10.1086/209028
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- 10.1086/209028