Competition in the service industry is intense. To deliver value-added services, more companies are focusing on consumers as a powerful means of establishing firm performance through dialog, participation, and engagement. However, scant research has been conducted to examine whether customer value co-creation can boost brand equity, particularly among SMEs. To address these shortcomings in the ...

The value of linkage research is in its ability to recognise the organisational practices that are the most important drivers of customer satisfaction in a specific organisation. Human Resources Management (HRM) plays a central role in the exchange relationships between the organisation’s management and its employees. Though earlier studies investigated several facets of climate as possible med...

The development of effective relationships is increasingly recognized as an important component of marketing strategies. Developing and maintaining satisfactory customer relationships can help increase customer retention. From the customer’s perspective, the determinants of relationship satisfaction include factors such as trust, service quality, price perception, inertia, indifference, and swi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a set of total quality management (TQM) and supply chain management (SCM) practices through an extensive literature review and to identify the relationships among them by comparing the identified TQM and SCM practices. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive overview of the practices of TQM and SCM is carried out using published research pape...

In today’s increasingly competitive markets, greater emphasis is being placed on customer service as a means of achieving competitive advantage. Many organizations believe that ebusiness can provide opportunities to improve customer service operations by enabling them to get closer to the customer and enhance the organization-to-customer contact experience. However, use of the Internet fundamen...

In February 2002, the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS), The University of Sydney, initiated a study to investigate world class logistics (WCL) practices in Australia. This research is part of the wider WCL study investigating the state of quality practices in logistics in Australian companies. The study examines the extent to which quality management practices are adopted, impediments to im...

An IT service desk provides a Single Point of Contact for the customers and users regarding support requests. The world-wide adoption of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework has also pushed organizations to improve their service desk operations. However, improving the service desk is a serious challenge for many IT service providers. Many government organizations in Finland have started t...

Customer service experience is an emerging research topic for researchers to further study. This study is to investigate the influences and relations from the complexity of customer service experience by the twoyear project. To our knowledge, there is no theoretical grounding to discuss and analyze the antecedents and influences of customer service experience. Service providers gradually have u...