“…These include transactions cost analysis [Noordeweir, John, Nevin 1990;Mudambi, Mudambi 1995;Stump, Heide 1996], agency theory [Mishra, Heide, Cort 1998], relational contracting [Dwyer, Schurr, Oh 1987;Lusch, Brown 1996], social exchange theory [Hallen, Johanson, Seyed-Mohamed 1991;Heide 1994], network theory [Achrol 1997;Walker 1997], game theory [Rao, Reddy 1995], interorganizational exchange behavior [Rinehart, Page 1992], power dependency [Gundlach, Cadotte 1994;Kumar, Scheer, Steenkamp 1995], and interpersonal relations [Iacobucci, Ostrom 1996]. More recently, resource allocation and resource dependency perspectives [Vardarajan, Cunningham 1995;Lohtia 1997], and classical psychological and consumer behavior theories have been used to explain why companies and consumers engage in relationship marketing [Sheth, Parvatiyar 1995a;Iacobucci, Zerillo 1997;Kahn 1998;Simonin, Ruth 1998].…”