This study investigates the interaction between obesity and disability and its impact on the levels of job satisfaction reported by older workers (aged 50-64) in ten European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and Spain). Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for the years 2004, 2007 and...

With the intense competition in banking systems, customer satisfaction has become more important issue in customer marketing. In existing studies, customer satisfaction has examined based on customers’ viewpoint. This study investigates customer satisfaction based on viewpoint of bank managers who understand their customers’ needs. This study aims to examine importance of various strategies tha...

Because the cost of attracting new customers is much higher than the cost of retaining old customers, keeping customers loyal is a crucial issue for service firms. This research explores how relationship quality and switching barriers influence customer loyalty. Relationship quality consists of two aspects: satisfaction and trust. Antecedents of satisfaction and trust are explored. To test the ...

highly competitive, dynamic and complex environment of banking industry and increasing growth of customers’ demand has led to lots of changes in this industry. therefore, e-loyalty has changed to a considerable subject in e-business environment to preserve customers. this study is conducted in order to identify and study the factors affecting e-loyalty of e-banking services’ users. the methodol...

INTRODUCTION The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a tool that helps in strategic management under the four following perspectives: the financial one, the client s, the internal processes of the company's, the growth and learning processes. In order to measure the performance of the entities, the BSC uses as a basis financial and non-financial indicators. OBJECTIVES To implement the BSC in a nutrio...

The objective of this paper is to reveal the factors that determine customers’ loyalty intention in the electronic marketplace. Seven hypotheses were postulated based on an extensive literature review in terms of sales behaviour, trust, satisfaction and price fairness. An empirical survey was then designed and conducted. The sample comprised customers who had made purchases from the best-known ...

CRM has been realized as a core for the growth of any enterprise. This requires both the customer satisfaction and fulfillment of customer requirement, which can only be achieved by analyzing consumer behaviors. The data mining has become an effective tool since often the organizations have large databases of information on customers. However, the traditional data mining techniques have no rele...

The main finding in this paper is that customer familiarity (i.e. the number of product-related experiences accumulated by the customer) affects customer satisfaction in an asymmetric way. Data from customers in the airline industry suggest that it is more difficult to obtain a high level of satisfaction among high familiarity customers compared to low familiarity customers, given a high perfor...