Why is service quality not enough to retain clients, and customer satisfaction not a guarantee of repeat business? This is one of the most frequently asked questions amongst researchers and practitioners. Several scholars and managers suggest that relationship quality (RQ) is replacing service quality and/or customer satisfaction as a key source of competitive advantage and superior performance. Despite the crucial role that relationship managers play in building business-to-business (B2B) RQ, very little research has looked at the key constructs of B2B RQ from a people-based...