A number of recent marketing studies examine the stock market's response to the release of American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) scores. The broad purpose of these studies is to investigate the stock market's valuation of customer satisfaction. However, a key focus is on whether customer satisfaction information predicts long-run returns. We provide evidence on the market's pricing of ACS...

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Many Customer-to-Customer (C2C) online auction providers still do not have a good understanding of Customer-to-Customer trade in Taiwan. The Customer-to-Customer online auction providers still do not have a good understanding of Customer-to-Customer trade behavior and are unable to provide satisfied and effective outcomes for an online auction trade. It is difficult to propose a standard trade ...

Abstract We document systematic differences in bitcoin prices across 11 different markets representing 26% of global bitcoin trade volume. These differences must — due to the identical nature of all bitcoin — result from characteristics of markets themselves. We examine differences across the markets and find that those which do not require customer identification for establishing an account ar...

eBay has integrated Skype (a public voice over IP application) chat and voice into hundreds of categories on eBay sites globally. By integrating Skype in the marketplace, eBay sellers have the option of including Skype functionality to their eBay listings. This fosters more consumer to consumer (c2c) communication, in which eBay sellers can provide better customer care and build trust with buye...

Additionally, there is an increasing need to maintain easy access to historical information for business or regulatory requirements. For example, a company may need to protect its interests by retrieving historical financial transactions to satisfy customer inquiries and resolve claims. In other cases, corporate policy or government regulations dictate that data must remain accessible for years...

Integrating customers into the innovation process is gaining popularity among companies as means of addressing competitive and market pressures. At the same time, companies are faced with the challenge of selecting appropriate customer integration methods to sustain customers’ engagement and elicit contributions that are useful. We draw from previous research in consumer behaviour to identify c...

Today, IT-support for enterprises is increasingly delivered as a commercial service. Consequently, IT-service provisioning requires at least two enterprises, a seller and a buyer. Moreover, the seller itself can often be considered as a network of enterprises, jointly satisfying an IT-need of a buyer, thereby utilizing each other strengths. In this paper, we contribute an ontologically well-fou...

One of the basic concepts in marketing is the concept of meeting customers’ needs. Since customer satisfaction is essential for lasting survival and development of a business, screening and observing customer satisfaction and recognizing its underlying factors must be one of the key activities of every business. The purpose of this study is to recognize the drivers that effect customer satisfac...