International countertrade is an unconventional marketing strategy used widely to
promote global business transactions. A mail survey involving 108 countertrade
practitioners from 23 countries suggests that marketing motives influence the
importance of countertrade, frequency of countertrade use, firm-specific
longitudinal change in countertrade sales volume, and orientation towards
international countertrade.
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