In the increasingly competitive world of retail banking, organizations are focusing their attention on customer service as a means of increasing customer loyalty and retention. With this goal of increasing customer retention, the link between the attitudes of the service provider (employee...

Customer support, such as equipment maintenance and repair, is an essentialelement in the successful marketing of a wide range of products, from computersystems to domestic appliances. Consequently, companies need to establish andmaintain appropriate channels for high-quality customer support;...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Management Decision, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

Understanding the contribution of marketing to economic and social outcomes is fundamental to broadening the focus of marketing. The authors develop a comprehensive model that integrates the impact of service quality and service satisfaction on both economic and societal outcomes. The model is...

This paper assesses International Joint Venture (IJV) marketing performance in the Republic of Thailand, as opposed to general business performance. Furthermore, the paper develops an objective measure to assess IJV marketing performance and compares two different types of measures for measuring...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Journal of Marketing Practice: Applied Marketing Science, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

During the last decade much research has been done on consumer perceptions in the so-called pure services with scant attention being devoted to the analysis of retail services associated with the marketing of goods. However, in recent years the service quality debate received much attention and...

The developments of retailer venture in Indonesia, particularly in Medan city has been growing recently. These were indicated by more and more investors who are running business in the same retailer field, no matter small scale or big scale business venture. Medan city retailer ventures have...