Designed for advanced MBA and doctoral courses in Consumer Behavior and Customer Satisfaction, this is the definitive text on the meaning, causes, and consequences of customer satisfaction. It covers every psychological aspect of satisfaction formation, and the contents are applicable to all consumables - product or service.Author Richard L. Oliver traces the history of consumer satisfaction from its earliest roots, and brings together the very latest thinking on the consequences of satisfying (or not satisfying) a firm's customers. He describes today's best practices in business, and broadens the determinants of satisfaction to include needs, quality, fairness, and regret ('what might have been').The book culminates in Oliver's detailed model of consumption processing and his satisfaction measurement scale. The text concludes with a section on the long-term effects of satisfaction, and why an understanding of satisfaction psychology is vitally important to top management.

Aims To Identity The Determinants Of Satisfaction And In Order To Test The Strength Of Relationship To Develop A Model Which Can Help Predict Satisfaction Behaviour At The Time Of Purchase. The Model Prepared Has Been Tested With The Help Of Logistic Regression. Five Chapters A Questionaire And A Useful Bibliography.

Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to further our understanding of the linkage among various disciplines inherently connected with one another in electronic commerce.

The unique contribution of Cracking the Code is its spotlight on how the knowledge of consumer psychology principles can be used to improve managerial decision making and organizational performance. Research on consumer behavior typically has a narrow focus and does not offer reliable and practical direction for marketers. Taken collectively, however, the conclusions of research streams can provide valuable information from which managers can base their decisions. The contributing authors of Cracking the Code offer a set of rules for managerial action that has been distilled from reviews of research areas in which they are experts. The book contains systematic, prescriptive advice based on state-of-the-art knowledge from multiple research lines regarding how consumers think and choose. The chapters cover fundamental topics such as new product management, marketing mix strategy, marketing communications and advertising, social media, and experiential marketing.

This thoroughly revised and enlarged edition brings to light the latest developments taking place in the area of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and focuses on current CRM practices of various service industries. This edition is organised into five parts containing 19 chapters. Part I focuses on making the readers aware of the conceptual and literary developments, and also on the strategic implementation of the concepts. Part II discusses the research aspects of CRM. Part III deals with the applications of information technologies in CRM. Part IV provides the various newer and emerging concepts in CRM. Finally, Part V analyses the CRM applications in various sectors, industries and companies. Primarily intended as a textbook for the students of Management, the book would prove to be an invaluable asset for professionals in service industries. New to This Edition Includes five new chapters, namely Research Techniques and Methods in Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Loyalty; Service Quality; and Service Recovery Management, along with several additions of new text and revisions of the existing text. Provides latest advancements in CRM to keep the students abreast of these developments. Gives as many as 16 Case Studies with critical analysis of different industries to help the readers understand the subject. Covers a number of illustrations to elucidate the concepts discussed. Gives Project Assignment in each chapter.