A national sample of purchasing professionals was used to replicate the SOCO scale with buyers assessing the customer orientation of salespeople who call on them. The results are almost identical to those obtained when salespeople assessed their own degree of customer orientation, except that buyers’ mean ratings are substantially lower than salespersons’ mean ratings.
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