Consumer satisfaction is a key determinant of customer retention, profitability of operators, consumer welfare and a strategic variable for competition and international comparisons. Spain's mobile customer satisfaction is the lowest in the European Union according to recent EU studies (SMREC,...

Competition in the electric service industry is highlighting the importance of a number of issues affecting the nature and quality of customer service. The quality of service(s) provided to electricity customers may be enhanced by competition, if doing so offers service suppliers a competitive...

The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and 2014 based on Malmquist indexes constructed upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) distance functions. The motivation for the less usual consideration of efficiency frontiers for...

Marketing function is incomplete if macro marketing role of the marketing system is excluded. Similarly, the productive system would be meaningless if there are no middlemen to distribute the products. Given the critical role of market intermediaries in the delivery of value, this study aimed at...

Consumersatisfaction is fundamental to organisational success. It is well recognised that personal service is important in achieving consumer satisfaction. However, the application of self-service technology (SST) is widcning and is attennuating traditional exchanges between consumers and...

Technology-based self-service (TBSS) enables consumers to complete services themselves using a technological interface. As evaluations of consumer satisfaction and commitment have typically focused on interpersonal interactions, the effect of TBSS on these is under researched . This paper...

Self-service technology (SS1J enables consumers to complete services themselves using a technological interface. Studies of consumer satisfaction and commitment have typically focused on the impact of interpersonal interactions on consumer satisfaction and commitment; however, the impact of SST...

During the first five to six years of the twenty-first century, the South African magazineindustry fragmented at a rapid rate and consumers had an ever-expanding choice of titles. Thespawning of niche markets as a result of this fragmentation was bolstered by a period ofsustained growth in the...

This study examines Customer Perceptions of services rendered by Pick 'n Pay Waterfront employees. The main objectives of this study include the following: To define customer services within a supermarket environment; To determine how Pick n Pay (PnP) employee achieve customer satisfaction...

Leading representatives of the European grocery industry formed the European Efficient Consumer Response (ECR-)Initiative in 1995. The goal of this strategic alliance is set to reengineer the way business is done in the industry by implementing cooperative strategies between retailer and...