Advances in the internal marketing concept: definition, synthesis and extension

M Rafiq, PK Ahmed - Journal of services marketing, 2000 - emerald.com
Over 20 years ago internal marketing was first proposed as a solution to the problem of
delivering consistently high service quality. However, despite the rapidly growing literature …

Factors influencing customer satisfaction in the retail banking sector in Pakistan

A Jamal, K Naser - International Journal of commerce and …, 2003 - emerald.com
Customer satisfaction is a significant issue for most marketers. Previous research has
identified various factors that determine customer satisfaction in retail banking sector in …

Internal market orientation: Construct and consequences

IN Lings - Journal of business research, 2004 - Elsevier
Research in services has long recognized the need for managers to focus internally on
employees as well as externally on customers. This internal focus is the domain of internal …

Consumers and brands: a study of the impact of self‐image congruence on brand preference and satisfaction

A Jamal, MMH Goode - Marketing intelligence & planning, 2001 - emerald.com
Previous research indicates that the self‐image product image congruity (commonly known
as self‐image congruence) can affect consumers' product preferences and their purchase …

How critical is internal customer orientation to market orientation?

J Conduit, FT Mavondo - Journal of business research, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the relationship between internal customer orientation and market
orientation. It builds on the notion that organisational dynamics and managerial action in …

Internal marketing and the mediating role of organisational competencies

PK Ahmed, M Rafiq, NM Saad - European journal of marketing, 2003 - emerald.com
The paper proposes and empirically evaluates a new internal marketing (IM) implementation
model as a framework for implementing marketing strategies. The paper proposes the …

El compromiso organizacional: un valor personal y empresarial en el marketing interno

JLR de Alba Robledo - Revista de Estudios …, 2013 - revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es
El compromiso organizacional ha sido objeto de estudio extenso debido a la importancia
que tiene para las empresas. En esta investigación se ha realizado un análisis de la …

Measuring internal market orientation

IN Lings, GE Greenley - Journal of service research, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Internal marketing has been discussed in the management and academic literature for more
than three decades, yet it remains ill defined and poorly operationalized. This article …

Internal market orientation, market capabilities and learning orientation

SR Fang, E Chang, CC Ou, CH Chou - European journal of marketing, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purposes of this paper are to examine whether internal market orientation
facilitates the development of external market capabilities, before influencing organizational …

The quality and effectiveness of marketing strategy: Effects of functional and dysfunctional conflict in intraorganizational relationships

A Menon, SG Bharadwaj, R Howell - Journal of the Academy of Marketing …, 1996 - Springer
By examining only dysfunctional conflict and ignoring functional conflict, empirical research
in marketing has presented only part of the story. This research offers the first systematic …