This paper calls for a merger of technology and marketing under a customer value perspective; for an enhancement of the traditional technological innovation orientation of the technology-based firm with a market thrust. It establishes technology-based products as product-service offerings that are derived from technological innovation. The aim in marketing technology-based products is an improv...

WOM elasticity values show a significant difference between physical and service product categories. In addition, all effective respondents in this research are highly sensitive to WOM relating to specific products. This shows that WOM is not only a key variable of tourism products but also validates that WOM communications are meaningful for tourism customers. The authors contributes to touris...

A structural conflict exists in businesses that sell services whose production costs are discontinuous and whose consumption is continuous but variable. A classic example is in businesses where capital-intensive infrastructure is necessary for provisioning service, but the capacity resulting from capital outlay is not always fully and efficiently utilized. Marketing departments focus on initiat...

Internet and e-Commerce have provoked major re-configurations of the tourism value chain. Especially Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) as marketing and information service providers have to face the threat of disintermediation; and they need to respond with higher level services and products. This paper presents our findings from a knowledge management project with Austrian National Tou...

With spectacular growth in demand since opening the market to foreign competition, executives within the Macau casino industry have focused their attention on enhancing capacity and opening new casino properties. Meanwhile, the Singapore casino market, barely two years old, has already produced revenues comparable to the Las Vegas Strip. Despite stellar past successes, the long-term scenario fo...

Despite widespread recognition and application of the relationship marketing principle, little empirical work has been done in terms of adopting the relational metaphor at the consumer-brand level. A notable exception is a study by Fournier (1998) in the context of consumer goods. To our knowledge, however, no research has been conducted based on relationship marketing at the consumer-brand lev...

Australian and international governments are increasingly adopting social marketing as a social change management tool to deal with complex social problems. Government decision makers typically need to balance the use of business models and management theories whilst maintaining the integrity of government policy. In taking this approach, decision makers experience management tensions between a...

This paper proposes the framework to examine interrelationship among experiential marketing, experiential value and purchase intensions in the quick service chain restaurants. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is used to validate and test the proposed model. Experiential marketing focuses on how customer senses, feel, think, act and relate their experiences. Experiential value incorporate the ...

Viral or buzz marketing takes advantage of communication linkages to propagate positive in uence regarding a product or service. TelE-commerce is an ideal domain within which to study viral marketing, because communication linkages can be observed. In this paper, we follow a new telE-commerce service. In particular, we observe how the communication networks of existing customers in uence the ra...