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;...

The tenets of relationship marketing are useful in understanding the success of a service provider. Based on a sample of 221 firms in Singapore that use ocean freight shipping services, examines service recovery issues related to satisfaction. It was found that service recovery methods such as...

The South African banking landscape has been characterized by changes sincethe late 1990’s. Within this environment this priority banking arena has alsobecome highly competitive and this is driven by a limited n umber of availablepriority banking clients. The ability to innovate is seen as a...

Purpose: Deshopping is the return of products, after they have fulfilled the purposefor which they were borrowed. Previous research indicates that deshopping is aprevalent and growing consumer behaviour. This paper examines deshopping from aretail perspective. It is a case study of interviews...

In this paper, the broad context for the study of emotional dissonance and its importance to marketing is set out. The relevant literature on emotional dissonance, its antecedents and outcomes are introduced together with the knowledge gap in the literature. The conceptual framework of emotional...

Examines the role and importance of customer-contact personnel in the marketing of a bank's financial services and the importance of customer service in retail banking. Customer-contact personnel from suburban branches of an Australian retail bank identified their level of agreement with...

The application and performance of Internet Commerce (IC) strategy has become a critical success factor in an industry characterised by volatile change and transformational upheaval. This article presents research examining how IC has been applied in Australian electricity utilities from a...