The authors formulate and test a model of organizational factors leading to successful implementation of the telemarketing innovation. Data to test the model were collected by interviewing two key informants in each of 110 industrial sales forces. Support was found for many of the individual hypotheses in the model. Preliminary conclusions are drawn for marketing management and theory.
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