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Overview

Michael Ahearne is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within business and social sciences, focusing particularly on areas such as organizational behavior, marketing, and management studies.

The main fields of study in Michael Ahearne's work include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization include:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Marketing
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management
  • Safety Research

Their research topics cover a range of themes, notably:

  • Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Corporate Finance and Governance

Michael Ahearne has published across several academic venues, with a frequency reflecting their engagement in marketing and sales management scholarship. Notable journals where their work appears include:

  • Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management
  • AMS Review
  • Journal of Marketing Research
  • Journal of Marketing
  • Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

Selected recent publications demonstrate a focus on buyer-seller interactions, sales processes, and organizational socialization. Some examples are:

  • The future of buyer-seller interactions: a conceptual framework and research agenda, 2021, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • Open Negotiation: The Back-End Benefits of Salespeople's Transparency in the Front End, 2020, Journal of Marketing Research
  • Onboarding Salespeople: Socialization Approaches, 2022, Journal of Marketing
  • Advancing sales theory through a holistic view: how social structures frame selling, 2020, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management
  • Managing Positive and Negative Trends in Sales Call Outcomes: The Role of Momentum, 2022, Journal of Marketing Research

Frequent collaborators in Michael Ahearne's research include:

  • Zachary R. Hall
  • Shashank Vaid
  • Mohsen Pourmasoudi
  • Phillip Wiseman
  • Molly Ahearne

Best Publications

  • Organizational Citizenship Behavior and the Quantity and Quality of Work Group Performance

    Philip M. Podsakoff;Michael Ahearne;Scott B. MacKenzie

  • To Empower or Not to Empower Your Sales Force? An Empirical Examination of the Influence of Leadership Empowerment Behavior on Customer Satisfaction and Performance.

    Michael Ahearne;John Mathieu;Adam Rapp

  • Antecedents and consequences of customer-company identification: expanding the role of relationship marketing.

    Michael Ahearne;C. B. Bhattacharya;Thomas Gruen

  • Some possible antecedents and consequences of in-role and extra-role salesperson performance

    Scott B. MacKenzie;Philip M. Podsakoff;Michael Ahearne

  • Data scientist: the sexiest job of the 21st century.

    Thomas Steenburgh;Michael Ahearne

  • Resistance to Brand Switching when a Radically New Brand is Introduced: A Social Identity Theory Perspective:

    Son K. Lam;Michael Ahearne;Ye Hu;Niels Schillewaert

  • The Role of Leaders in Internal Marketing

    Jan Wieseke;Michael Ahearne;Son K. Lam;Rolf van Dick

  • The adoption of information technology in the sales force

    Niels Schillewaert;Michael J. Ahearne;Ruud T. Frambach;Rudy K. Moenaert

  • Exploring the dynamics of antecedents to consumer–brand identification with a new brand

    Son K. Lam;Michael Ahearne;Ryan Mullins;Babak Hayati

  • Energizing the reseller's sales force: The power of brand identification

    Douglas E. Hughes;Michael Ahearne

  • Examining the effect of salesperson service behavior in a competitive context

    Michael Ahearne;Ronald Jelinek;Eli Jones

  • The Diffusion of Market Orientation throughout the Organization: A Social Learning Theory Perspective

    Son K. Lam;Florian Kraus;Michael Ahearne

  • High Touch Through High Tech: The Impact of Salesperson Technology Usage on Sales Performance via Mediating Mechanisms

    Michael Ahearne;Eli Jones;Adam Rapp;John Mathieu

  • Performance Impact of Middle Managers' Adaptive Strategy Implementation: the Role of Social Capital

    Michael Ahearne;Son K. Lam;Florian Kraus

  • If looks could sell: Moderation and mediation of the attractiveness effect on salesperson performance

    Michael Ahearne;Thomas W Gruen;Cheryl Burke Jarvis

  • The impact of knowledge and empowerment on working smart and working hard: The moderating role of experience

    Adam Rapp;Michael Ahearne;John Mathieu;Niels Schillewaert

  • Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Trying to Identify the Illusive Moderators of Leadership Behaviors

    Philip M. Podsakoff;Scott B. MacKenzie;Mike Ahearne;William H. Bommer

  • Why sales reps should welcome information technology: Measuring the impact of CRM-based IT on sales effectiveness

    Michael Ahearne;Douglas E. Hughes;Niels Schillewaert

  • Managing Sales Force Product Perceptions and Control Systems in the Success of New Product Introductions

    Michael Ahearne;Adam Rapp;Douglas E . Hughes;Rupinder Jindal

  • Examining the Effect of Salesperson Service Behavior in a Competitive Context

    Michael Ahearne;Eli Jones;Ronald Jelinek

  • Motivating Salespeople: What Really Works

    Thomas J. Steenburgh;Michael Ahearne

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Rapp
Adam Rapp Ohio University
John E. Mathieu
John E. Mathieu University of Connecticut
Philip M. Podsakoff
Philip M. Podsakoff University of Florida
Scott B. MacKenzie
Scott B. MacKenzie Indiana University
Eli Jones
Eli Jones Texas A&M University
C. B. Bhattacharya
C. B. Bhattacharya University of Pittsburgh
John F. Tanner
John F. Tanner Old Dominion University
William H. Bommer
William H. Bommer California State University, Fresno
Rolf van Dick
Rolf van Dick Goethe University Frankfurt
Nick Lee
Nick Lee University of Warwick

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