The study attempt to explore the level of customer satisfaction in terms of physical evidence and employee interaction in comparison between earlier established banks (before the year 2008) and newly established banks (after 2008) in the northern region of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. Results indicate...

A service-dominant logic by definition is inherently customer oriented and relational, reflecting deeper and more complex connections between suppliers and customers. The service mindset driving increased collaboration enables suppliers to have deeper insights to what customers' value. Customer...

The advent of the 21st century brought in its wake a paradigm shift in business and professional approach and attitude. The gradual increasing focus on service element along with products to differentiate from the competitors and attract and retain customers is also an important step in this...

Purpose – This paper finds the repurchase intentions of customers in a sharing economy via Airbnb and Uber, which are classic sharing-economy service businesses. Design/methodology – This paper analyzes sharing economy effects using variables in a structural equation model. Findings – We...

This paper documents the existence of the direct and indirect (via word-of-mouth) effects of service quality on new customer acquisition, usage and retention using behavioral data from the launch of a new video on demand type service. For this technology, service quality - the quality of the...

A top priority among retailers is enhancing the consumer's shopping experience. With the number of private label products increasing at the same time retailers are shedding slower moving products, understanding how private labels impact the consumer's experience at the retail shelf becomes...

This paper focuses on customers' perceptions regarding two key aspects in Maltese retail finance: service quality and internet banking. The importance of these topics is likely to keep on growing in the near future, as clients become more demanding and financially-literate. We use various...

Business ought to understand their customers' needs and wants, if they want to remain successful in a competitive market place. Therefore, this chapter introduces its readers to market research as tourism businesses continuously require information on their customers. In this light, a well...

Globalization impacts organizations and customers already a few decades. In the context of globalization customers have more purchasing choices than even before, customers buying behaviour changes, the abundance of buying options raises the questions how to keep customers loyal. Customer loyalty...

Objective - Banks are financial intermediaries which are vital to support the economy of a country. Banks can be interpreted as the financial institutions whose activities are collecting funds from the community, distributing the funds back to the community, and providing other banking services....