Brand managers who are able to understand how social media is evolving first have an advantage over those who are slower to understand what their followers are doing. Despite the advantage such
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This research provides insights into the effects of both owned (i.e., firm’s social media platform) and earned social media (i.e., consumer-initiated interactions with the firm on other social
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In this paper we describe three experiments comparing customer responses to complex prices between four services: banking, flights, health clubs, and mobile communication. The first study analyzes
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Health care customers increasingly use digital environments to take an active role in the creation of an optimal service experience. In online communities, patients share ideas, information and
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Role conflict is a highly salient theme in the literature on service frontline employees. Despite this, we still know little about how frontline employees decide which side to favor when faced with
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The purpose of this study is to examine how healthcare clients’ perceptions of employee emotional competence (EEC), influences satisfaction and loyalty, specifically the role of rapport and trust
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This article addresses how the perceived consistency of different retailer attributes affects customer-based retail brand equity when considering retailers as brands. It investigates the antecedents
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Retailers’ pricing has become one of the most important topics for profitability as they are operating on razor-thin margins. A key problem is to understand how customers perceive retailers’
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