Purpose As the concept of corporate sustainable management activities (CSMA) has become an increasingly important element of corporate management, much attention has been paid to its impact on customer relationship. Although there exists many studies concentrating mainly on the environment...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the growing field of membership research by applying a relationship marketing perspective on members in tourism settings. Focus is on exploring why consumers are members (motivational dimensions) and how motivations are related to member...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is threefold. The first is to discuss the practice of corporate hospitality (CH) at special events used by Australian businesses as a relationship marketing technique to engage with their customers. The second aim is to investigate how marketing...

Marketing has always been recognised as an economic activity involving the exchange of goods and services. Only in recent years have socio‐cultural influences been identified as determinants of marketing behaviour, revealing marketing as a cultural as well as economic phenomenon. Nevertheless,...

Purpose – This paper reviews brand equity and customer satisfaction as they relate to customer loyalty and relationship marketing in an effort to understand and mitigate some of the challenges facing quick‐service restaurants (QSRs) today. Design/methodology/approach – The authors reviewed...

Purpose – This paper describes the variables researchers have found to be significantly associated with relationship marketing, those related to Guanxi, and the similarities and differences between them. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers reviewed 77 articles on the subjects of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which a transactional marketing approach can generate customer loyalty in a hotel brand. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a review of the paradigm shift from transactional marketing to relationship marketing, in...

Purpose – In the highly competitive hotel industry, it is essential to encourage patterns of continuous repurchase and to retain customers. This may be achieved through the quality of the relationship established with them. The aim of the paper is to test a model of the antecedents and...

The purpose of this article is to draw the reader’s attention to service productivity and its connection to service quality and eventually to profits. In service operations the customer plays an active role in influencing productivity and quality. Furthermore, contemporary companies are...

Purpose – This article aims to look at the evolution of service management and marketing through three paradigms, the latest prescribing a new logic of service, to comment on a previously published article (Gummesson, 1998) on productivity, quality and relationship marketing in service...