This study relies on the social identity perspective to explore the relationships between the consumer-brand identification (CBI) construct and the customers' satisfaction, commitment, trust and loyalty toward hospitality brands. The methodology included a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) that...

This research integrates the congruity and the social identity theories to better understand the consumer-brand relationships. A structural equation modelling approach was used to explore the drivers of brand loyalty in the context of upscale hotels. The findings suggest that the customers are...

The latest European Union's (EU) guiding policies are encouraging big businesses and state-owned organisations to disclose their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Many European member states have transposed the EU's directive 2014/95/EU on non-financial reporting. This...

This research explored the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) owner-managers' attitudes toward digital media and stakeholder engagement. Its research methodology integrated measures from the technological acceptance model, the pace of technological innovation and corporate social...

The latest technologies are shifting how businesses capture, analyse and distribute data from the individual users' online activity. Therefore, this contribution critically reviews the latest developments on big data analytics and programmatic advertising. Moreover, it sheds light on the use of...

The airline product consists of tangible and intangible elements. It is important to remember that passengers are purchasing more than the airline product; they are also acquiring its benefits, including their customer experience, which they associate with it. Hence, the process of product...

The airline's scheduling process is intended to provide a plan on the operating patterns of the companies' aircraft and their resources, to meet the anticipated demand. The schedules' plans are usually based on one season only. However, they should be integrated into a long-term corporate plans,...

Modern revenue managers understand, anticipate, and react to market demand to maximize their businesses' revenues. They often do so by analyzing, forecasting, and optimizing their fixed, perishable inventory, and time-variable supply, through dynamic prices. Hence, the objective of pricing and...

The central role of marketing stems from identifying processes which create value to customers. Therefore, the marketing strategies and plans should be based on relevant frameworks which create and capture value to customers and to the businesses, themselves. The strategic planning involves a...

Businesses may not be in a position to satisfy all of their customers, every time. It may prove difficult to meet the exact requirements of each individual customer. People do not have identical preferences, so rarely does one product completely satisfy everyone. Therefore, many companies may...