This book attempts to shed light on why it is so difficult to develop and maintain successful businesses in the grocery e-commerce arena. Within the last five years, grocery e-commerce has experienced both consistent successes such as Tesco.com and irrevocable failures such as Webvan.com. Niels...

This book explains how the concept of mutuality is quickly becoming a fundamental principle in marketing. It presents useful, and applicable marketing models, typologies and tools, as well as guides to the systematic generation of strategic opportunities

There is more and more evidence that economic effectiveness and quality in customer relations must be viewed as a separate strategic issue in marketing. The attributes of exchanges, i.e. reciprocity, interdependence, partnership and transparency vis-a-vis every single customer create more and...