21th century advertising might just be the most powerful weapon a marketer haves and a quite efficient one if we think about the way it changed our world. But all that power comes with great responsibility: used accordingly by planning everything in the smallest detail possible it can be the...

The advances in technology hold great potential for helping Romanian government respond to its challenges namely, better service delivery, better procurement, efficient working and better communication with citizens and businesses. While the European Commission develops the main strategies on...

Information search is an essential part of the consumer`s decision making process. The online medium offers new opportunities and challenges for information search activities (in and outside the marketing context). We are interested in the way human information experiences and behaviors are...

Analyzing products and services around us it is clear that most of them are the result of production factors, labor and capital becoming more international and increasingly less and less national. We are witnessing the globalization of markets and production, to a large global integration and...

Flow is a construct imported in marketing research from social sciences in order to examine consumer behavior in the online medium. The construct describes a state of deep involvement in a challenging activity, most frequently characterized by high levels of enjoyment, control and concentration....

Developing and consolidating store image in the consumer’s psyche is undoubtedly an essential psychographic goal of decision makers from a retail enterprise. Regardless of the tools used to draw customers—assortment and particularly the unit’s own brands, assisted service or friendly and...

A special role in increasing customer satisfaction and contentment with any retail store is played by ambiance or in-store management. Store ambiance is closely related to all decisions taken concerning the manner in which the management can organise the store, arrange gondolas and shelves,...

Neuromarketing is a relatively new concept which has developed as a consequence of accepting, by an increasing number of persons, the idea that there isn’t an objective reality and that the entire world is actually inside our mind, it is the sum of our ex

The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical basis for evaluating ambient advertising in relation to the schema. Ambient advertising, a creative form of out-of-home advertising that conveys direct and contextual messages by using and often altering existing elements of the environment...

In this paper we present a new and competitive personnel assessment procedure, developed and tested on the General Social Care and Child Protection Department of Bihor County. The procedure is based on behavioral anchors evaluation scales and has a seven folded structure, completed by the...