The primary objective of the article was to determine the relationship between customer relationship management and student satisfaction. The study explored the ways in which student satisfaction can be achieved with the use of customer relationship management. Both descriptive and inferential...

Avenues for the delivery of loyalty programs have rapidly shifted from plastic card schemes to mobile-app-based initiatives; yet, our understanding of the economic value presented by the latter (i.e., loyalty apps) has not kept pace with this development. We examine the effects of loyalty app...

This paper investigates firm-focused customer attachment styles relationship, rather than general or interpersonal attachment styles. We proposed a theoretical framework and analyzed the customers' attachment styles and their moderating effect on happiness, commitment, loyalty, satisfaction and...

The ability to demonstrate the impact of marketing action on firm financial performance is crucial for evaluating, justifying and optimizing the expenditure of a firm's marketing resources. This presents itself as a formidable task when one considers both the variety and potential influence of...

The current paper analyses the influence of corporate social responsibility on consumer behaviour, since it brings up new questions related to the effect of this issue on traditional loyalty models. Starting from a literature review about the concept, several hypotheses about the influence of...

E-Commerce refers to use of internet for commercial and/or business transactions. This articles focus on digitally enabled commercial and/or business transactions. Electronic commerce is a business model which allows an individuals and firms to buy and sell products over the web. E-commerce...

Firms often utilize salesperson intelligence in marketing strategies to improve sales performance. However, this approach is problematic if the information is based on inaccurate perceptions. In light of this, the authors introduce a theoretical model to study the antecedents and profit impact...

A close look at many airlines show that although they have created huge amounts of customer data extracted from their interactions with their customers, they are far behind applying it in designing comprehensive CRM programs and strategies Fickel (as cited in Tefera, 2002).Similarly, the FFP of...

Research on consumer-brand relationships (CBR) has examined the CBR - brand loyalty link, but surprisingly little is known about the cultural and institutional settings that enable this link. We meta-analyze how and why different CBR constructs (e.g. love, identification) drive loyalty better in...

We find compared to dyadic brand relationships, where the brand relationship is an ends rather than a means of propping up an interpersonal relationship, triadic brand relationships that implicate a third party protect against emotional and behavioral cheating by virtue of reinforcing...