Over the past twenty years brand loyalty has been an important topic for both marketing practitioners and academics. While practitioners have produced proprietary brand loyalty audit models, there has been little academic research to make transparent the methodology that underpins these audits...

While there has been substantial research conducted in the business to consumer (B2C) sector on brand loyalty, there is scant evidence of the same in the business to business (B2B) sector (Russell-Bennett, McColl-Kennedy, & Coote, 2007). This paper seeks to advance the understanding of business...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to highlight important issues in the study of dysfunctional customer behavior and to provide a research agenda to inspire, guide, and enthuse. Through a critical evaluation of existing research, the aim is to highlight key issues and to present potentially...

Purpose – This study examines the nature of consumers’ perceptions of the value they derive from the everyday experiential consumption of mobile phones and how mobile marketing (m-marketing) can potentially enhance these value perceptions. Methodology – Q methodology is used to examine how...

While there has been substantial research conducted in the business to consumer (B2C) sector on brand loyalty, there is scant evidence of the same in the business to business (B2B) sector (Russell-Bennett, McColl-Kennedy, & Coote, 2007). This paper seeks to advance the understanding of business...

While there is substantial research on attitudinal and behavioral loyalty, the deconstruction of attitudinal loyalty into its two key components - emotional and cognitive loyalty - has been largely ignored. Despite the existence of managerial strategies aimed at increasing each of these two...

ABSTRACT Purpose This study aims to develop and test a service-based demographic framework for studying service quality perceptions. Specifically, the effect of level of service contact and key demographic variables of age, gender and income on service quality perceptions is...

While there is substantial research on attitudinal and behavioral loyalty, the deconstruction of attitudinal loyalty into its two key components ? emotional and cognitive loyalty ? has been largely ignored. Despite the existence of managerial strategies aimed at increasing each of these two...

Considerable resources are expended annually on building business brands, yet the literature is virtually silent on brand loyalty in a business setting. This study examines the relationship between attitudinal loyalty and behavioural loyalty in a business services context, and attempts to...

Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to provide services marketers with a deeper understanding of the elements that characterize mass services. The paper shows that many studies have been conducted within the context of professional and retail services, knowledge of mass service contexts is...