Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Kent Grayson-Friendship Versus Business in Marketing Relationships. 71-Journal of Marketing (October 2007)
Kent Grayson-Friendship Versus Business in Marketing Relationships. 71-Journal of Marketing (October 2007)
he notion that business relationships can become research on this topic is still relatively nascent, and the
M 4.37* 5.04* 3.37* 4.18* 19.21* 10.02* 10.86* 638.61* 4.08* 593.03*
SD 1.81* 14.80* 7.70* .55* 31.31* 19.87* 22.92* 1047.01* 7.96* 1225.08*
*p < .05.
aThe selection of a method variance marker is described in Appendix B.
Notes: Zero-order correlations appear below the diagonal; correlations adjusted for potential common method bias (Lindell and Whitney 2001) appear above the diagonal.
TABLE 2
Regression Results: Standardized Beta Coefficients
Average Average
Hours Product Number of
Hours Hours Respondent Sales New Recruits Average
Respondent Respondent Spends on Personally Respondent Profit Earned
Spends on Spends on Network Sold by Personally by Respon-
Hypothesis Selling per Recruiting Management Respondent Signs Up in dent per
Tested Month per Month per Month per Month Six Months Month
Main Effects
Friendship with upline sponsor H1 .02 .04 –.01 .03 .00 –.03
Number of downline friends H1 .05 .06 .17*** .14** .32*** .20***
Average monthly training .21*** .28*** .31*** .02 –.02 .09*
Previous upline relationship .00 .02 .06* .00 .02 .02
Perceived value of company and products .02 .03 –.02 .03 .00 .04
Interaction Effects
Friendship with upline sponsor × training H2 –.09** –.10** –.15*** .04 .00 –.09**
Downline friends × training H2 –.09 –.18*** –.43*** –.11** –.09* –.32***
Previous upline relationship × training H3 –.08* –.10** –.02 .04 .07 .00
Company/product value × training .14*** .15*** .07 .14*** –.02 .00
Control Variables
Hours spent on selling –– –– –– .11** –.08** –.04
Hours spent on recruiting –– –– –– .07 .20*** .36***
Hours spent on network management –– –– –– .05 .31*** .12***
Size of downline –.02 .27*** .49*** –.06 .20*** .27***
Years of experience as an agent .00 .00 .05 –.03 .01 .06*
Age .09** .00 –.02 .00 –.05 –.04
Gender (0 = male, 1 = female) –.02 –.07 –.04 .04 –.07** .00
Marital Status Dummy 1 –.06 .01 –.09* –.02 .08** .02
Marital Status Dummy 2 –.02 .04 –.12** –.02 .05 .07
Marital Status Dummy 3 –.03 .02 –.09** –.05 .01 .04
Number of dependent children .05 –.02 –.04 .02 –.06** .03
Company Dummy 1 –.37*** –.32*** –.20*** –.40*** –.26*** –.33**
Company Dummy 2 –.22*** –.34*** –.08 –.35*** –.18*** –.19***
Company Dummy 3 –.08 –.31*** –.07 –.26*** –.11** –.20***
Method variance marker (advertising) .03 –.04 –.06 –.01 .03 –.01
18 18
16 16
Hours Spent Recruiting Per Month
12 12
10 10
8 8
6 6
4 4
2 2
0 0
Fewer Hours of More Hours of Fewer Hours of More Hours of
Training Training Training Training
Stronger friendship with upline More friends in the downline
Weaker friendship with upline Fewer friends in the downline
C: Negative Interaction Between Training and D: Postive Interaction Between Training and Perception
Previous Friendship of Company and Products
18 18
16 16
Hours Spent Recruiting Per Month
Hours Spent Recruiting Per Month
14 14
12 12
10 10
8 8
6 6
4 4
2 2
0 0
Fewer Hours of More Hours of Fewer Hours of More Hours of
Training Training Training Training
REFERENCES
Agustin, Clara and Jagdip Singh (2005), “Curvilinear Effects of ——— (1989), Friendship: Developing a Sociological Perspec-
Consumer Loyalty Determinants in Relational Exchanges,” tive. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Journal of Marketing Research, 42 (February), 96–108. Arnett, Dennis B., Steve D. German, and Shelby D. Hunt (2003),
Aiken, Leona S. and Stephen G. West (1991), Multiple Regres- “The Identity Salience Model of Relationship Marketing Suc-
sion: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. Thousand Oaks, cess: The Case of Nonprofit Marketing,” Journal of Marketing,
CA: Sage Publications. 67 (April), 89–105.
Allan, Graham A. (1979), A Sociology of Friendship and Kinship. Atuahene-Gima, Kwaku and Haiyang Li (2002), “When Does
London: George Allen & Unwin. Trust Matter? Antecedents and Contingent Effects of Super-