Innovations are an important, although imprecise conceptual category. They are perceived differently depending on the accepted scientific perspective. The article verifies the concept of innovation in terms of marketing and accounting. The main aim of the paper is to identify problems and...

Long-term provision costs in trade are based on uncertain obligations in the future in relation to the goods sold. They mostly refer to warranty costs. Warranty costs are caused by repair and servicing of the sold products during the warranty period. They are function of the quality, usage and...

Anonymous and unannounced site inspections known as "Mystery Shopping" (MS) are common in multi-site service firms, but little is known about the strategic importance of this practice. We conceptualize MS as a monitoring tool firms use to implement the optimal allocation of site resources...

The research analyses two perspectives of pricing methods - the accounting and the marketing one. The research purpose is to analyse both ways and find out how reasonable price is formed - meaning fairly for both the company and the customer. The literature is analysed and the most important is...

Im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit steht die Frage, inwiefern Virtual Communities die Anforderungen an den Markenaufbau im Internet erfüllen können. Virtual Communities erfreuen sich z.T. großer Beliebtheit, weil sie verschiedenen menschlichen Bedürfnissen – etwa dem nach...

This paper assesses empirically the relationship between marketing expenditures and sales in the premium car segment in Germany. We employ a new data-set which contains model-specific data on sales (i.e. registrations), restyling activities and marketing expenditures at a monthly basis for the...

This paper investigates the impact of service quality in e-tailing on site visits and consumer demand (approximated by the last-click- through concept). We use a large representative data set obtained from a price-comparison site which covers most of the national (Austrian) market on e-tailing....

Basu (2006) argues that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equi- librium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price com- parison...

Veränderte Marktbedingungen stellen hohe Anforderungen an das Marketing von Dienstleistungsunternehmen. Um langfristig am Markt bestehen zu können, ist es für einen Dienstleistungsanbieter entscheidend, das Vertrauen seiner Kunden zu gewinnen. Aufbauend auf theoretischen Grundlagen werden am...

Zur Erstellung maßgeschneiderter Dienstleistungen ist die Mitwirkung des Kunden (Kundenintegration) unerlässlich. Dem Management von Kundenintegration auf Anbieterseite wird jedoch in der Praxis zu wenig Bedeutung beigemessen. Sie hat aber fundmentalen Einfluss auf die Effizienz und...