The following papers, which have highlighted the importance of business-to-business: bonding/relationship, social bond, trust and commitment, industrial satisfaction, etc., may be helpful to your topic:
Bagdonienė, L. and Žilionė, R. (2009) Success variables in business-to-business relationships, Proceedings of 4th International Scientific Seminar, Kaunas, Lithuania / Kaunas University of Technology. Kaunas, October 16-17, 2009, pp. 1-8 http://rasa.zilionis.net/files/Bagdoniene_Zilione_International_Seminar.pdf.
Biggemann, S. (2010) Modeling the structure of business-to-business relationships, Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing, 16, 3, pp. 27-177.
Buttle, F. A., Ahmad, R. and Aldlaigan, A. H. (2002) The theory and practice of customer bonding, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, 9, 2, pp. 3-27.
Chumpitaz, R. and Paparoidamis, N. G. (2004) Service quality and marketing performance in business-to-business markets: exploring the mediating role of client satisfaction, Managing Service Quality, 14, 2/3 pp. 235-248.
de Búrca, S., Fynes, B., Fynes and Roche, E. (2004) Evaluating Relationship Quality in a Business-to-Business Context, Irish Journal of Management, 25, 2, pp. 61-75.
Yanamandram, V. and White, L. (2006) Switching barriers in business-to-business services: a qualitative study, International Journal of Service Industry Management, 17, 2, pp. 158-192.
Dear Kenneth Lui-Ming Ngie, thank you very much for your contribution, you draw my attention to a very promising angle of view, b-2-b relationship evolution are extremely applicable to my research. Will try to arrange a proper compound with my current investigation.
Marketability factors for B2B sales taking into account their long-lasting impact on stakeholders include replicable modularity in design and speed in iteration.
According to Gartner, an average of 11 individual stakeholders are involved in a B2B purchase.