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The Impact of Perceived Choice Freedom on Salespersons’ Behavioral Intention of Gray Marketing
 PENG Qian, ZHUANG Gui-Jun, GUO Yan-Xia
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

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Abstract  

Based on the theory of marketing ethics and theory of planned behavior, this paper empirically tests the direct effects of salespersons’ judgment, organizational connivance and perceived choice freedom on their behavioral intention of gray marketing,and the moderator effects of perceived choice freedom from the seller’s standpoint. This study comes to the following conclusions: ①salespersons’ judgment on unethicalness of gray marketing has negative impact on salespersons’ intention to adopt gray marketing; ② organizational connivance increases salespersons’ intention of gray marketing practice; ③ salespersons’ perceived choice freedom not only has direct and positive impact on salespersons’ intention to adopt gray marketing, but also moderator or enhance the relationship between salespersons’ judgment on unethicalness of gray marketing and their intention to adopt gray marketing and the relationship between organization’s connivance and salespersons’ behavioral intention of gray marketing. Finally, the implications of the findings are suggested.

Key wordsperceived choice freedom      gray marketing      ethical judgment      organization s connivance     
Received: 02 April 2010     
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PENG Qian,ZHUANG Gui-Jun,GUO Yan-Xia. The Impact of Perceived Choice Freedom on Salespersons’ Behavioral Intention of Gray Marketing[J]. J4, 2012, 9(2): 272-.
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