Few studies have been conducted on special treatment, and they have always considered it as a rewarding tool aimed at maintaining loyalty. However, special treatment is more and more widely used by firms during their first interaction with customers, as a recruiting tool. Relying on the concepts...

A transdisciplinary literature review enabled us to identify a new construct in the marketing research field, i.e. Customer-Company Identification. It is defined as the process whereby customer’s beliefs about a company become self-defining and whereby he defines himself by the same attributes...

Le traitement de faveur a été relativement peu étudié dans la littérature en marketing, et il l‟a toujours été dans une perspective de fidélisation. Or de plus en plus d‟entreprises ont recours à ce type d‟outils dans une optique de recrutement, lors de la toute première...

A transdisciplinary literature review enabled us to identify a new construct in the marketing research field, i.e. Customer-Company Identification. It is defined as the process whereby customer’s beliefs about a company become self-defining and whereby he defines himself by the same attributes...