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Purpose – The major aim of this paper is to model, estimate and compare the technical efficiency and technology gap ratios of health care foodservice operations that operate in different Australian regions. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a metafrontier model to analyse the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine consumers' perception of the difference between customised/modified products and brand stereotypes, and the extent of brand's impact on consumers' decisions to customise their purchases. Current literature is rife about the shift from the...
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shopping frequency. Retailers could employ direct marketing to target specific audiences who look forward to receiving store …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which consumers in Melbourne understand recycling information on packaging labels and their resulting recycling behaviour. Mixed research methods were used in the study (qualitative and quantitative approaches) in the form of randomly...
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Cost efficiency and cost data in the health care foodservice sector have many interesting features. Traditional productivity approaches and empirical studies are yet to address many of these features, as they are limited to partial ratios and restricted parametric techniques. In this paper, we...
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John Deere and New Holland brand names appearing as marketing assets and Valtra, Massey Ferguson, and Case IH as marketing … experiential marketing strategy. Special attention should be given to the location of dealers and the service they provide …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a full-scale testing of the role of marketing and its relevance in … of marketing in SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – A positivist approach relied on the use of the hypothetico … marketing in SMEs has been thoroughly investigated and tested. The model offers a straightforward way of diagnosing the …
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This paper examines the use of marketing exchange theory in the nonprofit sector and argues that current mainstream … marketing theory is ill equipped for such use. It is argued that this is due to its continued reliance on neoclassically derived … could be adopted by nonprofit marketing. In this sense nonprofit marketing could start to drive theory development in …
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to review the literature in order to assess the opportunities and the possible welfare effects of differentiation strategies in the food market; and second, to analyse the current structure and organisation of the fresh produce market...
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the “human factor” inherent in business-to-business relationships and its impact on the key phases of business relationships: relationship attraction and initiation; relationship development; and relationship dissolution....
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