Communication, in all its aspects excluding advertising, is an intrinsic element in every marketing strategy at whatever level. A quantitative analysis on the adevrtising and communication's feedback may be of absolute importance for the company, the research team and the marketing chief. In...

This paper deals with the measurement of a service or product quality using Customer Satisfaction Survey results. Many different methods are used to analyse customer satisfaction data. Some use statistical models which estimate the relationship between the latent and manifest variables (LISREL,...

Alliances between competitors in which established firms provide access to proprietary resources, e.g. their distribution channels, are important business practices. We analyze a market where an established firm, firm A, produces a product of well-known quality, and a firm with an unknown brand,...

In a society's managing core quantitative marketing has a central role. Specific use of mathematic techniques integrated with made-for softwares is a resource no manager can ignore before getting into strategic decisions concerning whatever field of a product's study or promotion. Managing to...

The main aim of that work is to describe some of the recent direction of evolution of the management categories related to the measuring of the performances of brand in terms of three main strategic variables as brand equity, customer equity and brand-customer loyalty. Infact, one of the most...

A client's importance is never the same for a manager, as it is not supposed to be beneficial. Managing to see the difference between client and client and dealing according to that is a focus point in the study of a bussinness' situation. A modern marketing strategy cannot go without a precise...

MANAGING CUSTOMER BEHAVIOUR BY CRM AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: BETWEEN HISTORY AND DATA. In this paper we introduce some definitions concerning Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence and we emphasize how they can improve business strategies and performances. We show how Data...

In the first part of this paper we present an overview of e-commerce and Internet characteristics. We explain why data mining plays a central role among the digital marketing technique: it is the tool to achieve customer knowledge, the key of success in the wide but highly competitive world of...

Using data on cross border transactions together with an informative measure of financing constraints this paper provides new evidence that limited access to external capital narrows the scale of foreign sales, the exporters’ product scope and the number of trade partners. It shows that...

Romania has been selected among the 10 Central and Eastern European candidates for EU membership, ranking second as importance after Poland, and is expected to join the Community in 2007. Romanian financial institutions have to face today adaptations and opportunities and banking business in the...