Since sport marketing is a commercial activity, precise customer and marketing segmentation must be investigated frequently and it would help to know the sport market after a specific customer profile, segmentation, or pattern come with marketing activities has found. Such knowledge would not only help sport firms, but would also contribute to the broader field of sport customer behavior and ma...

It is often desirable to predict how a computer system will perform given changes to the system. Systems administrators are frequently faced with answering questions such as, \How will the throughput of the system be aaected if the number of users increases by 50% and if the CPU is upgraded by adding a oating point processing unit?" System models (e.g., analytical, simulation) can be used to he...

As the oldest academic journal in marketing, Journal of Retailing publishes research dealing with all sorts of B2B and B2C retailing-related topics. However, there appears to be a perception that Journal of Retailing welcomes only research pertaining to B2C issues. In this article, we debunk that perception through an analysis of the content of Journal of Retailing articles published during the...

today, electronic banking has essential role in banking industry. challenges facing banking industry led to banks make to use electronic banking and delivery services and products throughout electronic banking. moreover, they are trying to understand their customers' needs and everyday increase service quality throughout electronic banking. this research tries to investigate effect of cust...

This study looks at the financial performance of a set of large international airlines from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Efficiency measures are related to their strategically focused expenditures on operations and on customer services. The results, based on data envelopment analysis, indicate that operation management, including that of customer service attr...

Valuing customers is a central issue for any commercial activity. The customer lifetime value (CLV) is the discounted value of the future profits that this customer yields to the company. In order to compute the CLV, one needs to predict the future number of transactions a customer will make and the profit of these transactions. With the Pareto/NBD model, the future number of transactions of a ...

Financial Services firms require processes and systems which can support and maintain customer-related information for the purposes of core business-focussed activity. Specifically within the investment banking sector, the importance and criticality of such customer information underpins the firm’s ability to transact sales, trading and other advisory-based services in an efficient and relevant...

Customer behavior mining in shopping activates is important from two perspectives namely, the perspective supplier of goods and the perspective of shop owners. Both groups want to know that their customers’ interest in which goods and identify which sequence of the goods that are most popular. The latter group will even change the manner of arrangements of goods in their shops, manner of good o...