Converting Relationship Value into Performance: The Effect of Commitment and Trust

Relationship outcomes, particularly their value and performance, are of interest to both academics and practitioners. This paper therefore reports on a study that attempts to elucidate the effect of two important constructs, namely commitment and trust, on a set of future financial performance outcomes of the more intangible aspects of relationship value. It is theoretically grounded in a resource-based view of the relationship and in the IMP literature. It supports the hypothesis that commitment is a mediator of the path from value to future financial performance, and suggests that trust has a more complex effect on the path than simple mediation