It’s time for the Romanian organizations to know what foreign companies have found along time. Without innovation, a company cannot survive! The innovation index is different from a sector to another, achieving, for example, even 100% in the field of read-made clothes. Innovation is like a...

Recent advances in intelligent pricing softwares have created numerous opportunities for retailers to turn customer information into additional profits through targeted pricing: charging different prices to different market segments directly or indirectly based on customer demographics. However,...

Companies spend enormous resources on customer relationship management (CRM), but there is no clear understanding on two seemingly simple, but critical questions: (1) Should firms reward or punish their current customers? (2) Can CRM be profitable in a competitive setting? While CRM...

Brand choice is the biased, mindful and behavioral tendency which direct consumer’s predisposition toward a brand. Brand choice is a fundamental element for all marketing strategies. Strong brand choice is the founding block for brand loyalty. Brand loyalty is one of the key drivers of...

There is growing interest in "customer-based corporate valuation," explicitly tying the value of a firm's customer base to its financial valuation. While much progress has been made in building a well-validated customer-based valuation model for contractual (or subscription-based) firms, there...

We study the optimal customer-acquisition and customer-retention decisions over an infinite planning horizon of the representative firm in a monopolistically competitive industry. Both the long-term and short-term equilibria of the industry are characterized by a constant optimal retention rate....

We examine the modern approach to customers as assets in its connection to the tradition of the Austrian Economic Theory. We revisit the concept of Customer Lifetime Value within a conceptual framework similar to a Misesian Evenly Rotating Economy. We argue that individual entrepreneurial action...

We consider the problem of optimal allocation of the marketing budget between customer acquisition and customer retention by a firm over the trade cycle. In line with the Schumpeterian idea of creative destruction, we find that under perfect capital markets customer retention increases with the...

Business ought to understand their customers' needs and wants, if they want to remain successful in a competitive market place. Therefore, this chapter introduces its readers to market research as tourism businesses continuously require information on their customers. In this light, a well...

Customer churn, which insurance companies use to describe the non-renewal of existing customers, is a widespread and expensive problem in general insurance, particularly because contracts are usually short-term and are renewed periodically. Traditionally, customer churn analyses have employed...