The idea of mass customization is to turn customers' heterogeneous needs into an opportunity to create value, challenging the “one size fits all” assumption of traditional mass production. In this paper, we explore the characteristics of successful mass customization implementation at the...

Dissatisfied customers often use social media to voice their complaints effectively, and firms strive to find solutions about how to respond to publicly visible service failure posts. We add to the emerging literature on complaint handling via social media by examining how complaining customers...

Objective – Retailers today have acknowledged that incorporating great customer emotion product relationship can lead to total customer retention. In this paper an overview of the existing literature on customer emotion is provided before it is examined for the creation of customer emotion...

Since electronic services (e-services) are different from their traditional counterparts in many aspects, conventional service quality models remain insufficient to capture the perceived e-service quality concept. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a structural perceived e-service...

Customer retention is specific to the context of each firm, and this is rarely recognized in models for customer retention. This paper studies how customer retention in hospitality business-to-business contract catering depends on the relationship substance built up due to interaction between...

This article aims to examine the contribution of Vargo and Lusch (V&L) to service-dominant logic (S-D logic) thinking from the first time it appeared until now. No previous study has specifically analyzed all contributions of V&L since the phenomenon appearance of their article about this...

The core objective of this paper is to determine the level of online dialogue in social media between the tourist industry leaders and their customers. This study applies sequential explanatory industry-representative comparison with statistical and qualitative analysis of online word-of-mouth...

The measurement of loyalty is a topic of great interest for the marketing academic literature. The relation that loyalty has with the results of organizations has been tested by numerous studies and the search to retain profitable customers has become a maxim in firm management. Tourist...

Purpose: About 23% of world's population is Muslims, and it is predicted to grow to 35% in the next 20 years. Million of Muslims from all over the world take Hajj and Umra every year, and Indonesia leads the largest Hajj pilgrims in the world. This makes huge demand for Hajj and Umra travel...