"Brands - corporate, products, service- today are collectively defined by their customers, , deriving from personal experiences and word-of-mouth. This book acts as a forum for examining current and future trends in corporate branding, identity, image and reputation. The book provides scholars,...

Purpose: This study develops the idea of smart retailing, exemplified in innovative, technology-enriched retail services as part of service-oriented strategies. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to provide a new integrated framework to understand the emerging retail scenario based on...

Purpose: Consumers online interactions, posts, rating and ranking, reviews of products/attractions/restaurants and so on lead to a massive amount of data that marketers might access to improve the decision-making process, by impacting the competitive and marketing intelligence. The purpose of...

Introduction -- The world of e-retailing -- The business of e-retailing in practice -- Integration of e-retailing into an organisation -- Understanding and communicating with the e-consumer -- Information search on the web -- E-store design: navigability, interactivity and web atmospherics --...