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2002

Technological University Dublin

Marketing

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The Role Of Commitment In Relationship Marketing In Consumer Services: An Airline Perspective, Ceara Cooper Nov 2002

The Role Of Commitment In Relationship Marketing In Consumer Services: An Airline Perspective, Ceara Cooper

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This study proposes a relationship marketing model, which identifies the antecedents of commitment in the context of consumer services. The literature review initially considers relationship marketing (RM) and the concept of commitment from the context of the marketing and social psychology literature. Commitment is a key element of RM. If parties to a relationship are not committed, the relationship risks dissolution. In this study, commitment is conceptualised as having two distinct dimension i.e. affective and calculative commitment. Affective commitment represents a positive motivation for relationship continuance, whereas calculative commitment represents a negative motivation. Many studies consider commitment to be a …


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2002, Unknown Jan 2002

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2002, Unknown

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The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2002, Aidan O'Driscoll Jan 2002

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2002, Aidan O'Driscoll

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in Marketing. This is a special joint issue in association with the Korean Academy of Marketing Science on " Researching the Cybermarket".


Integrating The Activities Required To Recruit And Retain Profitable Customers In Contemporary Retail Banking, Susan Walsh Jan 2002

Integrating The Activities Required To Recruit And Retain Profitable Customers In Contemporary Retail Banking, Susan Walsh

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Today’s high street retail bank faces a major challenge in integrating the marketing activities required both to recruit new customers and to retain existing profitable ones. The challenge involves a judicious mix of “transaction marketing” – mainly aimed at winning new clients – and of “relationship marketing”- largely aimed at retaining present ones. Evidence from a detailed qualitative study of marketing practice in a UK high street bank, a subsidiary of an Irish headquartered bank, demonstrates just how problematic achieving this balance can be. The date indicates that this bank underinvested in a number of activities that are of primary …