In the first section, a literature review on identification enables a clear definition of the "Customer-Company Identification" construct to be given. Then in the second section, the conceptual framework and the main hypothesis are exposed. In the third section, an empirical investigation into a...

This conceptual article presents the current criticisms to relationship marketing and important concepts developed in the psychology to understand consumer reactance toward services packaged as formal contracts. A first part presents the numerous questions that researches are raising about the...

The relational approach is often presented as a strategy to retain customers, but it may also be an appropriate approach to encourage customers to complain, as a review of literature shows. Using information contained in complaints and giving the right answers (distributive, procedural and...

This paper's objective is to stress the interest for both innovators and designers of a marketing concept that has been widely explored since the early 80's in the fields of customer behaviour and brand management. Indeed, the concept of hedonic perceived value, as defined by Holbrook and...

The postmodern paradigm based on a cultural and a symbolic perspective in marketing and consumer behaviour research emerges from the criticism of the utilitarian logic that has prevailed in the research community in marketing and led researchers to view the consumer as an individual essentially...