“…Previous studies have found various characteristics to promote salespeople's cross-cultural selling effectiveness, such as cross-cultural knowledge and skills (Delpechitre & Baker, 2017); sales communication effectiveness (Koponen et al, 2019); and adaptive selling behaviour (Charoensukmongkol & Suthatorn, 2020;Park & Deitz, 2016). Meanwhile, additional traits and personal characteristics such as optimism , resilience (Good et al, 2020), self-efficacy (Peterson, 2020), and emotional intelligence (Heidari et al, 2017) have been identified as crucial factors that help salespeople deal effectively with sales-related challenges. Although an abundance of research centres around these antecedent variables that explain effective cross-cultural selling, research that examines the role of salespeople's personal characteristics in terms of trait mindfulness is still not adequately discussed in literature.…”