Since a long time, companies have tried to involve the consumer in the production of service. These approaches are highly increasing and advocate a new view of consumers, not as passive receptacles for offerings but as true market partners. This participation is a relatively recent area of...

Self-checkout technologies (self-checkout or self-scanning systems) enjoy rapid development since the end of the 2000’s. Through qualitative interviews with retailers’ clients, this paper analyses their perception and usage of these new technologies. It helps to understand the process of...

Commander ses billets de train sur Internet, monter ses meubles ou scanner soi-même les produits de son caddie...la participation du consommateur aux différentes phases du processus de production d'un produit ou service se développe sous des formes variées, des plus ordinaires aux plus...

Cet article explore les finalités poursuivies par la recherche française en marketing. Une analyse scientométrique des communications de cinq Congrès de l'AFM révèle la permanence d'un puissant paradigme managérial et le développement récent de travaux plus sociétaux. Ces résultats...

An organic label offers a market signal for producers of organic food products. In Western economies, the label has gained high recognition, but organic food still represents a small part of total food consumption, which raises questions about the label's efficacy. By considering organic labels...

La décision d’allocation d’espace aux rayons repose aujourd’hui sur un savoir-faire essentiellement empirique des enseignes. Elle gagnerait à intégrer la notion d’élasticité des ventes à l’espace des rayons. Dans cet article, nous définissons dans un premier temps...

In order to improve the shelf-space allocation decision-making, we investigate the impact of space allocated on sales at the department level. A conceptual framework has been estimated on data coming from Monoprix.

Nowadays retailers manage a portfolio of private label product lines, in order to improve customer satisfaction and to make difference with competitors. An exploratory study, based on a retail store chain customer database, demonstrates that premium private labels and mainstream private labels...

Retailers hold portfolios of complex and structured private labels (PL) brands from low cost positioning to premium. In addition, in recent years, the competition between these various brands with national brands invite to use many quality cues with the aim of improving the quality perceived by...

Previous research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) generally acknowledges that consumers develop more favourable perceptions of responsible firms. Yet few empirical works have focused on the effects of the firm's societal communication and of its characteristics on brand equity. In this...