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Managing Conflict to Increase Channel Coordination

Managing Conflict to Increase Channel Coordination. Channel Conflict. …is the behavior by a channel member that is opposition to its channel counterpart …occurs when one channel member of a channel views its upstream or downstream partner as an adversary, as an opponent. . Measuring Conflict.

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Managing Conflict to Increase Channel Coordination

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  1. Managing Conflict to Increase Channel Coordination

  2. Channel Conflict • …is the behavior by a channel member that is opposition to its channel counterpart • …occurs when one channel member of a channel views its upstream or downstream partner as an adversary, as an opponent.

  3. Measuring Conflict • Counting up the issues • Importance • Frequency of disagreement • Intensity of dispute

  4. Useful Conflict?? • Communicate more frequently • Critically review their past actions • Devise and implement a more equitable split of system resources • Develop a more balanced distribution of power…

  5. HOW HIGH LEVELS OF CONFLICT ERODE CHANNEL RELATIONSHIPS

  6. Major sources of conflict in marketing channels • Channel members’ goal • Differing perceptions of reality (product/service, segment, competition) • Clash of marketing domains • Intrachannel competition -Multiplechannel s • Unwanted channels: gray markets

  7. Unwanted Channels-Gray Markets • Gray marketing is the sale of authorized, branded product through unauthorized distribution channels. • Usually bargain-discount outlets that provide less customer service than the authorized channels do. • Strawberry.net, Louis Vuitton and Channel in Japan market…(not fake…)

  8. Conflict Resolution Strategies • A relatively passive channel member has an avoidance style of dealing in conflict. • Accommodating to the other part: to be more focused on the other’s goal than on one’s own. • Competition-aggression: playing zero sum by pursuing one’s goals while ignoring the other party’s goals. • Centrist approach: pressing solutions that let each side achieve its goals but only to an intermediate degree. • Close-commited relationships: collaboration strategy…

  9. Resolving conflict • Institutionalized mechanisms • Information-intensive mechanisms • Third-party mechanisms • Building relational norms • Incentives

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