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Effects of Personality on Service Quality in Business Transactions

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  • Ching-I Teng
  • Kuei-Wen Huang
  • I-Ling Tsai

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This study describes the relationships among a salesperson's personality, similarity in terms of personality between salesperson and purchase representative (rep), and service quality perceived by purchase reps. The following findings were obtained: (1) agreeableness of a salesperson was negatively related to the responsiveness perceived by purchase reps; (2) salesperson neuroticism was negatively related to purchase rep perceptions of assurance, empathy, and overall service quality; and (3) the similarity in extraversion between salesperson and purchase reps was negatively correlated with purchase rep perceptions of reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and overall service quality.

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  • Ching-I Teng & Kuei-Wen Huang & I-Ling Tsai, 2007. "Effects of Personality on Service Quality in Business Transactions," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(7), pages 849-863, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:27:y:2007:i:7:p:849-863
    DOI: 10.1080/02642060701570495
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