Judith Anne Garretson Folse Data-verified

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Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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25 h-index 49 pubs 2,520 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Judith Anne Garretson Folse's research focuses on understanding communication dynamics and relationship performance in business-to-business (B2B) contexts. Her work investigates how factors such as trust, communication methods, and salesperson transgressions influence customer satisfaction and overall relationship outcomes.

Her publications examine the comparative effects of emotions like gratitude and indebtedness in B2B relationships, and the impact of a salesperson's overestimation of trust on customer satisfaction. Folse also studies how businesses can effectively recover from service failures, exploring the use of both digital and non-digital communication formats to address "dropping the ball" scenarios. Additionally, her research delves into the role of online chat interactions in satisfying customers through dialogical engagement, and the effectiveness of messaging strategies during critical periods, such as pandemics, with implications for social marketing.

Folse holds a designation as a highly cited researcher, with an h-index of 25 and over 2,400 citations across her 49 publications. She leads a research group and remains actively publishing, with her most recent work appearing in 2025.

Metrics

  • h-index: 25
  • Publications: 49
  • Citations: 2,520

Selected Publications

  • Online chat encounters: Satisfying customers through dialogical interaction (2025)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Communicating with B2B buyers after “Dropping the Ball”: Using digital and non-digital communication formats to recover from salesperson transgressions (2024)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Examining the Effectiveness of Messaging During a Pandemic: Implications for Social Marketing (2022)
  • We are not on the same page: The effects of salesperson trust overestimation on customer satisfaction and relationship performance (2022)
    12 citations DOI OpenAlex

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