Ability to influence members of organizational buying groups is often the chief requirement for a successful industrial marketing effort. One approach is to stimulate a buying center boundary role person to take on an additional role of advocate. This article presents a causal model of antecedent factors hypothesized to stimulate advocacy and consequent effects of perceived advocacy behavior on organizational buyers’ vendor choice.
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