Die Policy Note analysiert und vergleicht Elektrizitätspreise für gewerbliche und industrielle Kunden in Europa seit 2007. Historisch betrachtet zählten die Nettopreise für gewerbliche und industrielle Kunden in Österreich zu den niedrigeren in Europa. Jedoch änderte sich diese Situation...

Social Customer Relationship Management (SCRM) has revolutionized the interaction between companies and customers, creating new opportunities and challenges for both parties. This study aims to present an innovative model for identifying the dimensions and components of SCRM. The data were...

Purpose of the article: The current problem on customers' side is the problem of waste generated after purchasing. The purchasing process provides a huge amount of waste, especially due to various kinds of packaging (boxes, bags, sacks) in paper and plastic form. The purpose of the paper is to...

Purpose: This research aims to develop a national index to measure customer satisfaction in Jordan. Based on householders' perspectives and assessments, this index will form a national measurement of customer satisfaction with goods and services offered in Jordan. Design/methodology/approach: T...

Purpose - This research examines and investigates the importance of sustainable business profit through customers and its impacts on three key business domains: technology-innovation-service (TIS). The main goal was to see what were the interrelationships of business-consumers and...

Continuous organic production growth in the Republic of Serbia poses the issue of the existence of adequate distribution channels for these products, as they require specific storage and distribution requirements. In addition, the development of organic food production and demand for these...

Purpose: This research aims to develop a national index to measure customer satisfaction in Jordan. Based on householders' perspectives and assessments, this index will form a national measurement of customer satisfaction with goods and services offered in Jordan. Design/methodology/approach: T...

Disadvantaged or minority customers are always vulnerable to discriminatory treatment by service employees. Discrimination against minority customers has become a frequent headline in the news. The main objective of this research is to construct a model that explains the relationship between...

We exploit anonymized administrative data provided by a major fintech platform to investigate whether using alternative data to assess borrowers' creditworthiness results in broader credit access. Comparing actual outcomes of the fintech platform's model to counterfactual outcomes based on a...

Firms invest heavily in customer capital, and such investment is a main source of intangible capital value. This study measures investment in customer capital using sales and marketing expense from income statements, information on salaries paid to workers in sales and marketing, and text from...

We study the relation between bank funding costs and the financial sophistication of bank customers. In doing this, we make use of a natural experiment that allows us to identify banks that--either intentionally or unintentionally--price time deposits in a way that can result in...

Purpose This study aims to investigate tourists’ intentions to use hotel service robots with a focus on safety and hygiene. It examines the impact of perceived safety, health awareness and service assurance on consumer engagement and robot usage. Design/methodology/approach Survey data from...

1.Importance of a Meaningful Mission 2.Relentless Passion 3. Prosperity Mindset 4. Additional Aspects of a Prosperity Mindset5. Love and Business Activities 6. Stakeholders and Love 7. Loving Ways to Relate to Stakeholders 8. Natural Conversations with Stakeholders 9. The Use of Positive...

Platforms that intermediate trades, such as Amazon, Airbnb, and eBay play a regulatory role in deciding how to govern the marketplaces they create. We propose a framework to analyze a platform's non-price governance designs and its incentive to act in a welfare-enhancing manner. We show that the...

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of AI chatbots on customer trust in AI chatbots for hotel services. Design/methodology/approach The probability sampling method was employed to develop a research sample. The research uses correlation analysis and structural equation modeling to...