bancassurance as selling insurance product consider the banksas an example of cross selling to customer from financial institutionsviewpoint and, on the other hand, cross buying by customers. regardingincreased competition, creating a financial supermarket to provide allfinancial services to customers is strongly growing. in this context, first itis necessary to identify factors affecting custo...

in recent years, many changes have been observed in buying culture of customers and developing chain stores in iran. moreover, need to be more competition in business environments made necessary the stablishment of chain stores, the creation of competitive advantage and long relations to the costumers. regular marketing is a response to stores requirement when establishing such a win-win long r...

The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an international forum which promotes high-quality research regarding the trading agent problem. One of the TAC competitive scenarios is Supply Chain Management (SCM) where six agents compete by buying components, assembling PCs from these components and selling the manufactured PCs to customers. The idea of TAC SCM is the development of agent-based archit...

Online group buying, as a new form of e-commerce, has offered customers a great deal of promotion and convenience in shopping. Meanwhile, there are an increasing number of OGB vendors struggling in the fierce competition and extremely turbulent business environment. During 2010 and 2011, more than 2000 OGB vendors in China have been out of business or facing with bankruptcy. Therefore, study of...

In the era of intense competition among organizations, retaining a customer is a collaborative process. Business organizations are adopting different strategies to facilitate their customers in verity of ways, so that these customers keep on buying from them. Association Rule Mining (ARM) is one of the strategies that find out correspondence/association among the items sold together by applying...

Enhancing the speed and competition in an exhibition of services and products motivated the companies to provide high-quality products to the customers. One of the effective strategies to reach these goals is to create working groups. These groups can help the companies to improve the quality and exposure of their services along with reducing the costs. This approach is applicable in the health...

Intense competition among a vast number of group-buying websites leads to higher product homogeneity, which allows customers to switch to alternative websites easily and reduce their website stickiness and loyalty. This study explores the antecedents of user stickiness and loyalty and their effects on consumers’ group-buying repurchase intention. Results indicate that systems quality, informati...

Group buying is now a popular business mechanism whereby customers are encouraged to bargain together. Today’s group buying usually adopts a fixed group price rather than using a dynamic pricing mechanism and many retailers sell products using both a group buying and a posted price. Therefore, there are usually different shopping channels as the market can be divided into two segments, a group ...