Given the growth of the service sector, and advances in information technology and communications that facilitate the management of relationships with customers, models of service and relationships are a fast-growing area of marketing science. This article summarizes existing work in this area...

Based on 102 online surveys accounting for more than 3 million interviews, we show that websites are powerful purchase intent and brand builders and represent a strong opportunity to enhance customer relationships through “conversation” with the brand's best customers.

Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully...