Consumers and brands across the globe: Research synthesis and new directions

Z Gürhan-Canli, G Sarial-Abi… - Journal of International …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Extensive research has investigated branding practices, processes, and consumers'
reactions to brands in a globalized world. In this review, the authors aim to organize and …

Customer satisfaction and international business: A multidisciplinary review and avenues for research

GTM Hult, FV Morgeson III, U Sharma… - Journal of International …, 2022 - Springer
We systematically review the literature on customer satisfaction, partitioning the literature
into three generations of thought and focus, with the most recent, third generation, heavily …

Appreciation vs. apology: Research on the influence mechanism of chatbot service recovery based on politeness theory

M Song, H Zhang, X Xing, Y Duan - Journal of Retailing and Consumer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Failures in human-chatbot interactions are becoming inevitable such as failure of chatbots to
maintain contextual awareness. Thus, an effective service recovery strategy is essential for e …

Small details that make big differences: A radical approach to consumption experience as a firm's differentiating strategy

R N. Bolton, A Gustafsson… - Journal of Service …, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–Service organizations and marketers have focussed too much of their energy on
their core service's performance and too little emphasis on designing a customer journey …

Perceived university support, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, heterogeneous entrepreneurial intentions in entrepreneurship education: The moderating role of the …

L Shi, X Yao, W Wu - Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The study clarifies the relationship between students' perceptions of university
support and heterogeneous entrepreneurial intentions in the Chinese context. It proposes a …

Consumer behaviour: Applications in marketing

R East - 2021 - torrossa.com
We have designed this book to support courses in consumer behaviour at Master's level. It is
also suited to more advanced teaching at first-degree level. Our intended audience is those …

Does the importance of value, brand and relationship equity for customer loyalty differ between Eastern and Western cultures?

SS Zhang, J van Doorn, PSH Leeflang - International business review, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of the customer equity framework as a focal marketing strategy to increase customer
loyalty has emerged as an important topic. Despite a growing number of investigations …

The fresh start mindset: Transforming consumers' lives

LL Price, RA Coulter, Y Strizhakova… - Journal of Consumer …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This article introduces the fresh start mindset, defined as a belief that people can make a
new start, get a new beginning, and chart a new course in life, regardless of their past or …

When travel blurs the self: The role of self-diagnosticity in tourist pay-what-you-want

J Hu, LC Wan - Tourism Management, 2025 - Elsevier
While existing research on pay-what-you-want often focuses on specific factors within the
tourism context (eg, time pressure, social crowding) that impact customers' payment …

Culture's impact on consumer complaining responses to embarrassing service failure

LC Wan - Journal of Business Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Prior cultural research generally agrees that Asian consumers (collectivists), who emphasize
social harmony, are less likely to complain but more likely to switch and to spread negative …