The value concept is one of marketing theory’s basic elements. Identifying andcreating customer value (CV) - understood as value for customers - is regarded asan essential prerequisite for future company success. Nevertheless, not until quiterecently has CV received much research attention....

This empirical study analyzes the cultural basis of the United States market response to imported Spanish products that seem to violate strongly-held cultural taboos. Survey responses were obtained from students in two contrasting majors, Art and Business, in two distinct cities and...

Introduced in 2003, net promoter score (NPS) very quickly gained popularity, as a customer loyalty measure, among companies and a part of researchers, due to its simplicity, the ease of interpretation, low costs of calculation, and, overall, its assumed impact on future growth and profitability....

The article clarifies the concept of value for customer, demonstrates challenges related to the concept itself and its measurement and sheds new light on the consequences of conceptual and metric choices. The analysis focuses on three points: first, it shows, how the definition and delineation...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the retail landscape has undergone profound and enduring changes, necessitating a comprehensive examination of its implications for both consumers and retailers. This study provides a systematic analysis of emergent shifts in consumer behavior and the...

As a "research-enabled" undergraduate student, I approached Professor Faff about opportunities for research projects. Recognizing that I had only limited research exposure, he devised a program of incremental learning, based on his "pitching research" framework (Faff, 2015,2021). Under close...

Gamified market research tools help to increase respondents' engagement and obtain more in- depth results. Up till now the effects of gamification have been tested in the offline environment. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world of the qualitative research and also triggered a need to...

Problems such as environmental pollution, the depletion of the ozone layer, the melting of glaciers due to global warming, the decline in clean resources and the extinction of some species have prompted people to consider the idea of a more sustainable world. In this process, humanity is going...

Tourism business executives should discover critical ways to create a memorable experience by appealing to consumers' multi-sensory organs emotionally and rationally. From this point of view determining the most successful multi-sensory brand experience concept, which the customers find most...

The last century's industrial and technological development has led to the growth of environmental problems such as global warming, climate changes, water, air, and ground pollution. The awareness of modern consumers about these issues is growing, and companies respond by using "green marketing"...