Introduced in 2003, net promoter score (NPS) very quickly gained popularity, as a customer loyalty measure, among companies and a part of researchers, due to its simplicity, the ease of interpretation, low costs of calculation, and, overall, its assumed impact on future growth and profitability....

This paper proposes a novel approach to the estimation of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). CLV measures give an indication of the profit-generating potential of customers, and provide a key business tool for the customer management process. Existing approaches show unsatisfactory performance in...

Objective - The purpose of this study is to investigate which factors have a stronger influence on final purchase decisions from the perspective of the chemical market. The factors under consideration are customer satisfaction, commitment and cost fluctuations.Methodology/Technique - By...

This research explores the impact of service satisfaction, relational satisfaction, price satisfaction, and commitment on customer loyalty in logistics outsourcing relationships in Indian scenario. 254 users of logistics services from India were selected for investigating the potential linkages...

Ensuring effective customer service requires targeted efforts in a number of areas, one of which is to develop service standards for each market segment. Differentiating customer service is achieved by adopting different standards according to the following criteria: availability of assortment...

Most organizations do not pay attention to the customer's profitability. It is also appropriate to improve this activity by first applying a model of customer profitability analysis. One of the basic principles of customer return analysis, which the provider must implement, is to disclose and...

This research reveals customer- and employee-firm relations to be two routes by which firms can leverage executive incentive structures to create customer and firm value. Analyses of a unique dataset with multiple archival sources show that (1) increases in the proportion of CEOs' long-term...

The study extends the existing knowledge by taking a relationship perspective to study the effect of service quality on customer retention. We integrate business‐to‐business marketing literature with service quality literature to develop a model to capture relationship commitment and other...

In marketing, customer satisfaction is considered as a key construct in the last few decades. Previously it is a less acceptable construct, since most of the marketing oriented organizations are perceived that attracting new customers better than retaining existing one. However, currently, these...