Consumer satisfaction is a key determinant of customer retention, profitability of operators, consumer welfare and a strategic variable for competition and international comparisons. Spain's mobile customer satisfaction is the lowest in the European Union according to recent EU studies (SMREC,...

Competition in the electric service industry is highlighting the importance of a number of issues affecting the nature and quality of customer service. The quality of service(s) provided to electricity customers may be enhanced by competition, if doing so offers service suppliers a competitive...

The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and 2014 based on Malmquist indexes constructed upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) distance functions. The motivation for the less usual consideration of efficiency frontiers for...

Marketing function is incomplete if macro marketing role of the marketing system is excluded. Similarly, the productive system would be meaningless if there are no middlemen to distribute the products. Given the critical role of market intermediaries in the delivery of value, this study aimed at...

Social commerce (s-commerce) is a social media service enabling consumers' participation in the online marketing and sale of products and services. This study aims to (a) identify key functional and hedonic quality factors that affect consumer satisfaction based on consumers' perspective and (b)...

This paper aims to study the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on brand image and brand equity and its impact on consumer satisfaction. The study follows a quantitative methodology, using the implementation of an online questionnaire distributed to people who bought, during the...

A tourism experience is a continuous process. Yet, the following question remains an outstanding issue: How to account for a memorable experience when the experience encompasses periods that occur before, during, and after visiting a destination? Community-based tourism (CBT) allows visitors to...

The purpose of this study was to find and test the key success factors for increasing consumer satisfaction in the small and medium industry of souvenir food products in Pekanbaru City, Indonesia by examining the variables of product uniqueness, product completeness, Buying Decision and consumer...

Developing businesses in compliance with the principles of sustainability has been a tough challenge in our century. A planned, integrated and properly coordinated orientation towards environment protection, involvement in activities of society and local communities, supporting and streamlining...

Taking into consideration satisfied customer as necessary for business maintenance, companies are trying to discover determinants which have the biggest influence on their consumer satisfaction. Here are presented two factors that have influence on consumer satisfaction in shopping centers:...