Satisfaction

Satisfaction
Author: Richard L. Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1997
Genre: Consumer satisfaction
ISBN: 9780071154123

This text is based on twenty years of research on the meaning, causes and consequences of customer satisfaction. It reviews current research and describes the work of practitioners in the field of satisfaction measurement

Satisfaction: A Behavioral Perspective on the Consumer

Satisfaction: A Behavioral Perspective on the Consumer
Author: Richard L. Oliver
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317460227

Designed for advanced MBA and doctoral courses in Consumer Behavior and Customer Satisfaction, this is the definitive text on the meaning, causes, and consequences of customer satisfaction. It covers every psychological aspect of satisfaction formation, and the contents are applicable to all consumables - product or service.Author Richard L. Oliver traces the history of consumer satisfaction from its earliest roots, and brings together the very latest thinking on the consequences of satisfying (or not satisfying) a firm's customers. He describes today's best practices in business, and broadens the determinants of satisfaction to include needs, quality, fairness, and regret ('what might have been').The book culminates in Oliver's detailed model of consumption processing and his satisfaction measurement scale. The text concludes with a section on the long-term effects of satisfaction, and why an understanding of satisfaction psychology is vitally important to top management.

Service Quality

Service Quality
Author: Roland T. Rust
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0803949200

The importance of service and service quality has been growing in the world economy since the late 1970s. Establishing new levels of sophistication and rigor, as well as a broad set of approaches, Service Quality presents the latest research and theory in customer satisfaction and services marketing.

Interpreting Consumer Choice

Interpreting Consumer Choice
Author: Gordon Foxall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135238081

Interpretive consumer research usually proceeds with a minimum of structure and preconceptions. This book presents a more structured approach than is usual, showing how a simple framework that embodies the rewards and costs associated with consumer choice can be used to interpret a wide range of consumer behaviours from everyday purchasing and saving, innovative choice, imitation, ‘green’ consumer behavior, to compulsive behaviors such as addictions (to shopping, to gambling, to alcohol and other drugs, etc). Foxall takes a qualitative approach to interpreting behavior, focusing on the epistemological problems that arise in such research and emphasizing the emotional as well as cognitive aspects of consumption. The author argues that consumer behaviour can be understood with the aid of a very simple model that proposes how the consequences of consumption impact consumers’ subsequent choices. The objective is to show that a basic model can be used to interpret consumer behaviour in general, not in isolation from the marketing influences that shape it, but as a course of human choice that is dynamically linked with managerial concerns.

The Handbook of Marketing Research

The Handbook of Marketing Research
Author: Rajiv Grover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2006-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1452261539

The Handbook of Marketing Research: Uses, Misuses, and Future Advances comprehensively explores the approaches for delivering market insights for fact-based decision making in a market-oriented firm. Divided into four parts, the Handbook addresses (1) the different nuances of delivering insights; (2) quantitative, qualitative, and online data gathering techniques; (3) basic and advanced data analysis methods; and (4) the substantial marketing issues that clients are interested in resolving through marketing research.

Online Consumer Behavior

Online Consumer Behavior
Author: Angeline Close
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848729693

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Consumer Behavior and Insights

Consumer Behavior and Insights
Author: Diane Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2020
Genre: Consumer behavior
ISBN: 9780190857134

Historical and current perspectives on consumption -- A historical context for understanding consumption -- Contemporary perspectives on consumer behavior -- Consumer research -- Micro-view of consumption -- Perceptual processes -- Learning and memory -- Personality, self, and motivation -- Attitude theory and behavior change -- Decision-making and involvement -- Macro-view of consumption -- Patterns of buyer behavior -- Groups, social processes, and communications -- Culture -- Where are we going? -- Ethics and social responsibility -- Future trends in consumer behavior -- Glossary -- Index.

Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management

Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management
Author: Paul M. Swamidass
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2000-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0792386302

Production and manufacturing management since the 1980s has absorbed in rapid succession several new production management concepts: manufacturing strategy, focused factory, just-in-time manufacturing, concurrent engineering, total quality management, supply chain management, flexible manufacturing systems, lean production, mass customization, and more. With the increasing globalization of manufacturing, the field will continue to expand. This encyclopedia's audience includes anyone concerned with manufacturing techniques, methods, and manufacturing decisions.

The Psychology of Financial Consumer Behavior

The Psychology of Financial Consumer Behavior
Author: Dominika Maison
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030105709

This book stresses the psychological perspective in explaining financial behavior. Traditionally, financial behaviors such as saving, spending, and investing have been explained using demographic and economic factors such as income and product pricing. The consequence of this way of thinking is that financial institutions view their clients mostly from the perspective of their income. By taking a psychological approach, this book stresses the perspective of consumers confronted with a quickly changing financial world: the changing of financial offers and products (savings, investments, loans), the changing of payment methods (from cash to cheques, cards and mobile payments), the accessibility and temptation of goods, and the changing of insurance and pension systems. The Psychology of Financial Consumer Behavior provides insight into the thought processes of consumers in a variety of financial topics. Coverage includes perceptions of wealth, the pleasure or pain of spending, cashless transactions, saving and investing, loans, planning for the future, taxes, and financial education. The book holds appeal for researchers, professionals, and students in economics, psychology, economic psychology, marketing and consumer science, or anyone interested in financial behaviors.

The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology

The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology
Author: Cait Lamberton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 873
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1009243942

In the last two years, consumers have experienced massive changes in consumption – whether due to shifts in habits; the changing information landscape; challenges to their identity, or new economic experiences of scarcity or abundance. What can we expect from these experiences? How are the world's leading thinkers applying both foundational knowledge and novel insights as we seek to understand consumer psychology in a constantly changing landscape? And how can informed readers both contribute to and evaluate our knowledge? This handbook offers a critical overview of both fundamental topics in consumer psychology and those that are of prominence in the contemporary marketplace, beginning with an examination of individual psychology and broadening to topics related to wider cultural and marketplace systems. The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology, 2nd edition, will act as a valuable guide for teachers and graduate and undergraduate students in psychology, marketing, management, economics, sociology, and anthropology.