The South African economy has, over the last 18 months, experienced severe change. The good times have been replaced with bad. The once buoyant consumer riding the crest of the wave and with an unquenchable appetite for debt, who revelled in the trappings of what money could buy, is long gone....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the satisfaction consequences in repurchase situations. Design/methodology/approach: Online travel services are chosen because customers in these types of services had direct contact with firms. A conceptual model of CS-RPI link is developed...

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...

Service quality become a focus by all company, including banks, to maintain its customer. Improving service quality is crucial for banks to deliver an outstanding customer experience. It is believed that customer satisfaction can be achieved only if customer experienced service that meet or...

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

Purpose: An extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model tests how customer loyalty intentions may relate to subjective and descriptive norms. The study further determines whether consumption characteristics ? product enjoyment and importance ? moderate norms-loyalty...

The extent to which service quality is linked to satisfaction, value and behavioural outcomes continues to be debated in the literature. This research investigated two models involving the linkages between service quality, satisfaction, perceived value, repurchase intention and willingness to...

The perspective that asymmetrical power relationship on vertical channel would lead to dominating partner exploitation with the use of coercive power is examined within the context of horizontal channel exchange relationship between department stores and tenant retailers. A power...

This study examines Customer Perceptions of services rendered by Pick 'n Pay Waterfront employees. The main objectives of this study include the following: To define customer services within a supermarket environment; To determine how Pick n Pay (PnP) employee achieve customer satisfaction...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in Marketing Intelligence & Planning, published by and copyright Emerald.