In this paper the importance of word of mouth for marketing management in the twenty-first century will be discussed. After a short introduction, there will be a focus on the demarcations and problems of traditional marketing. Then, in the third section, word of mouth (WOM) and word-of-mouth...

Doctoral dissertations provide a relevant contribution in a field. The general purpose of the dissertation research is to demonstrate research competence and to add something of value to the body of knowledge. This study provides an overview of marketing research in Spain through doctoral...

In recent years researchers have shown a growing interest in vertical interorganisational relations, above all in the Supply Chain. The absence of previous reviews of the literature on this topic, which would allow us to establish the key issues in Supply Chain Management, led us to analyse the...

The health service quality has been discussed in several organizations committed with the development of the programs and actions capable to attend the expectations of their patients. The aim of this work is to analyze the relationship among the variables quality, satisfaction, image, trust and...

This paper examines the impact of the quality of the financial website in the generation of trust that users of the Internet developed into the canal. With this purpose, we discuss the hypothesis that establishes a relationship between both constructs and that it will allow to verify if the...

This article analyzes various elements that influence customer buying behaviour of online supermarket. These elements are related to both website aesthetic aspects, as with the processes taking place at the time of purchase. From this analysis, we study the different groups of consumers with...

The present research focuses on the differences that the tourists' belonging to two unlike cultural groups - i.e., low uncertainty avoidance individualists versus high uncertainty avoidance collectivists - imposes on the performance of the model explaining the generation of satisfaction and...

The tourism sector of Croatia has been developing strongly in the last ten years. It is of crucial importance for its future development to be capable of managing the hotel sector according to the new market conditions. The purpose of this research is to study high-quality hotels of Croatia from...

The present study is built on the principles of relationship selling in a context of industrial Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The research specifically analyses the influence of customer-oriented selling and ethical sales behaviors on customer satisfaction, trust and loyalty to the...