1 An Introduction to Quality, Satisfaction, and Retention-Implications for the Automotive Industry -- 2 Linking Satisfaction to Design-A Key to Success for Volvo -- 3 Improved Customer Satisfaction Is Volvo Priority -- 4 Design of Lines as a Product-Policy Variant to Retain Customers in the...

An approach for capturing unobserved customer heterogeneity in structural equation modeling is proposed based on partial least squares. The method uses a modified finite-mixture distribution approach. An empirical analysis using quality, customer satisfaction and loyalty data for convenience...

Outlines awareness of political marketing in Germany and argues that there is a need for the German political parties to market themselves. Discusses some of the essential aspects of political marketing, with particular reference to the institutions, ingredients and instruments involved....

The goal of this current study is to extend customer satisfaction research in two important ways. First, it attempts to demonstrate the relationship between customer satisfaction and price acceptance. Second, as Voss, Parasuraman and Grewal claim that only a small proportion of the existant...

Purpose – This paper aims to link conceptually the concepts of price fairness and customer satisfaction and empirically demonstrate the influence of perceived price fairness on satisfaction judgments. Further, it seeks to examine specific factors that influence fairness perceptions including...

Within the customer value literature there is a lacuna of theoretical frameworks and models that underlie consumers’ overall product valuation. This paper addresses this limitation and presents a model integrating consumer values, product benefits, and various costs of consumption. In the...