introduction: internet searches suggest people need to check the appropriate and correct information in the field of health. meanwhile, due to the rapid growth of new technologies such as mobile technology, which today is universally accessible to all members of society, has been created a new  and  appropriate channel to offer health services that use this technology to propose best value tail...

Managing customer relationships was easier in earlier times. Merchants knew their customers – the members of their households, what they generally bought, their likely future purchases, and their current and potential value as customers. This knowledge helped merchants create highly effective customer relationships. However, that close understanding of customers eroded as people became more mob...

The Internet transformed a large number of industries, resulting in various e-commerce business models. An industry that has experienced a particularly large impact is tourism. Although numerous travel agencies offer their services online, the question about the design of online vis-à-vis offline distribution channels continues to persist. This research investigates the value creation for custo...

New technologies have fostered a shift from a transaction-based economy through an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) informational-exchange economy to relationship-based Electronic Commerce (EC) one (Keen 1999.) We have moved from “first order” transactional value exchanges through “secondorder” informational value exchanges to “third-order” relational value exchanges (Widmeyer 2004.) Three imp...

This study is designed to explain how restaurant healthy food quality is related to repeat patronage intention. The results indicate that perceived value mediates the positive relationship between the restaurant healthy food and revisit intent. In other words, restaurant healthy food quality increases perceived value in the diner’s mind, which in turn results in a higher level of revisit intent...

In the past decade, firms have paid increasing attention to customer value management (CVM). Through customer-centric management systems, firms aim to maximize customer value. In this article, we put forth six important lessons that firms can employ for successful CVM, integrating available research knowledge and best practices: (1) use CVM to improve business performance; (2) ensure that CVM i...

Value from the perspective of the customer is fundamental to firm success (Holbrook, 2005; Sweeney and Soutar, 2001; Ulaga and Eggert, 2006). Given that customers are individuals, and differ in terms of how they see themselves and what they value; individual customers willingly or unwillingly participate in the cocreation of brand value (Kates, 2004), and whilst there is general agreement about...