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With the increasing interest in business relationship issues, relationship value has emerged as an important aspect. What makes a business relationship valuable for the standpoint of the customer has become critical for supplier. The present paper reviews the alternative conceptualizations and...
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Cross-case analysis is a qualitative methodology widely used in social science. However, systematic and rigorous analysis techniques that consistently produce objective and reliable findings need to be identified. This paper adapts Porter?s Strategic Group Mapping principles to form an analysis...
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If models are simplified pictures of reality, current international market selection process (IMSP) models do not pass the test of reality. Further, there has been limited research carried out in Australia on this issue. Using grounded theory methodology, this article explores how a...
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markets across the Asian continent. The rationale for this approach is that, as consumers in emerging markets differ from each …
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constitutes at least two-thirds of the world?s total population and is made up of consumers whose daily household income is less … than US$2 per day. The thesis achieves its purpose by establishing how consumers make decisions to buy products, how firms … which serve the BOP conduct business in this environment and the nature of the interaction which occurs between consumers …
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With developments such as an increase in competition, busier and more sophisticated consumers, companies attempt to … translates into increased brand loyalty, which in turn means reduced cost in acquiring new consumers. Brand equity can be …
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communities. Understanding consumers and their behaviour is at the core of marketing yet much of what we know has been derived … from empirical studies of consumers in western countries. More than 80% of the world's consumers are living in emerging …
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Decision support systems (DSS) are usually based on computerised models of biophysical and economic systems. Despite early expectations that such models would inform and improve management, adoption rates have been low, and implementation of DSS is now ?critical? The reasons for this are unclear...
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Wireless ad-hoc networks consist of devices communicating with each other without the need for a management infrastructure. As such, the very basic operation of ad-hoc networks is dependent on the cooperation of their nodes to provide connectivity and communication routes. In practice though,...
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International marketers are faced with the challenge of understanding the decision making process that consumers at the …
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