This paper presents research conducted in the United Arab Emirates with the management of Bareburger, the chain of sustainable restaurants, as well as among its clients. In our project, we are interested in the relation between the offer of sustainability and the culture of conscious...

Value creation for customers in the form of experiences has been gaining attention remarkably. Great customer experiences could fuel surprising wow moments of truth, or perhaps magic moment. In fact, customer experience is destined to act as the tool for differentiation strategy. Quality...

Customer delight is an experience, an epiphany, a surprise, something you never experienced before. Those happy moments can be unpredicted moments or the result of a specific strategy. Barry Berman’s study describes the phenomenon with accuracy and in a very comprehensive way. The application...

E-commerce is extensively used in all types of business, including manufacturing companies, retail stores, and service firms. This paper reviews prior research, examines the origins of e-commerce, identifies e-risks, describes retail trade on the Internet, defines virtual business, identifies...

Purpose: Organizations, nowadays, are becoming cognizant of Employer Branding as it has been observed that with the help of Employer Branding the best talent in the market can be attracted, retained, and motivated. The study aimed to find out the dimensions of employer branding and to establish...

This paper extends prior research on consumer knowledge beliefs and word-of-mouth transmission. Findings from four studies suggest that people compensate for unfavorable discrepancies between their actual and ideal consumer knowledge with heightened efforts to signal knowledgeability through the...

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...

Despite mixed performance reviews and experiences, customer relationship management (CRM) is among the most widely used and discussed management ideas by managers around the world. Commentators have noted that CRM has become “big business” and that there are many commercial actors selling...

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...

We propose that contextualizing consumer-brand relationships (CBR) by providing interpersonal relationship reminders will activate relational schemas, leading consumers to rate CBRs as less agentic and strong. Four studies demonstrate that relationship reminders lower ratings of brand...