Why are senior managers (not) involved with their firm’s most important customers? (In brief)

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This very brief summary of conclusions from Victor Wullink’s Masters thesis gives a flavour of what he discovered from interviewing seven very different companies. He found that a relationship exists between the degree of KAM embeddedness in a firm and top management involvement. Its importance in terms of acquiring and retaining customers depends on customer perceptions, particularly when the product can be…

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