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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...
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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...
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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...
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The combined pressures of desintermediation, deregulation, and industrial restructuring have helped to redefine the nature and importance of bank-client relationships (Schell, 1996). Directors or treasurers of companies often recognize that their relationship is with the bank account manager,...
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In this paper we analyze the early stages of the highway construction program in Poland. We argue that the whole investment process could be accelerated if much attention was paid to establishing a better legal framework. Investigating the bids for the A2 highway and the implementation of the...
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This paper deals with the relationships between plural form and performance in franchising networks in Europe. It is … performance. The model has been estimated using panel data on 41 publicly listed European franchising networks in the 1998 …
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Within the wide literature regarding franchising, a few studies were devoted to the adverse selection phenomena in the … concluded that the signaling framework is not well adapted to study franchising. However, most of the empirical literature has … focused on developed countries. This empirical paper deals with the case of Brazil. We estimate on recent franchising data a …
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This dissertation is for the purpose of comparing two different practices of the same business content from one international franchisor - Wall Street Institute International. The dissertation evaluates the different practices of Wall Street Institute France Isère and Wall Street Institute...
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the upstream firm. The analytical part of the paper surveys the vast literature devoted to franchising and to dual …
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This paper presents an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovativebargaining mechanism (called automated negotiation) used to resolve disputes arising fromInternet-based transactions. The main result shows that the settlement rule tends to chillbargaining as it creates...
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