“…With regard to the nature of the relationship quality construct, the extant RMT literature provides various opinions on B2B relationships. For instance, several studies acknowledge relationship quality as a higher-order construct (Casidy & Nyadzayo, 2019;Čater & Čater, 2010;Krasnikov, Jayachandran, & Kumar, 2009;Naudé & Buttle, 2000;Perez-Vega, Hopkinson, Singhal, & Mariani, 2022;Palmatier, 2008;Smith, 1998). However, Jiang et al (2016), Athanasopoulou and Giovanis (2015), and Song (2012) regard relationship quality as a multi-dimensional construct.…”