College of Business and Economics: Recent submissions
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New product development and sustainable performance of Chinese SMMEs: The role of dynamic capability and intra-national environmental forces
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Despite a growing research interest in innovation strategies i.e. new product development, very few studies explore how the regional environmental mechanism is inherent in the link between new product development and ... -
Participation Behaviour Among International Students: The Role of Satisfaction with Service Augmentation and Brand Choice Attainment
( Springer Nature , 2016 , Book chapter)Interest in understanding and managing the student experience has been growing in order to develop and offer high-quality, satisfaction-creating service experiences (Bowden and D’Alessandro 2011; Fagerstrøm and Ghinea ... -
Consumer Acculturation of Indigenous Minority Community to a Multicultural Expatriate Population: An Abstract
( Springer Nature , 2017 , Book chapter)The consumer acculturation literature acknowledges that acculturation is a change that occurs when individuals come into contact with individuals from other cultural backgrounds. However, studies have predominantly examined ... -
Projecting the Outcomes of Consumer-Brand Value Congruence: The Mediating Role of Relationship Quality
( Springer Nature , 2016 , Book chapter)How does consumer-brand relationship quality (CBRQ) influence behaviors attributed to personal values? We answer this question by proposing a model that links customer voluntary performance and propensity to leave with ... -
How sociable is your university brand? An empirical investigation of university social augmenters' brand equity
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to integrate branding and higher education literature to conceptualize, develop, and empirically examine a model of university social augmenters' brand equity. Design/methodology/approach: ... -
Service Ethnocentrism: A Conceptual Model (An Abstract)
( Springer Nature , 2017 , Book chapter)The service marketing literature has recognized the importance of studying cross-cultural service encounters in which the service provider and the customer are from different cultures (Baker et al. 2008; Sharma et al. 2014; ... -
Generational Differences in Brand Hate: An Abstract
( Springer Nature , 2022 , Book chapter)Consumer-brand relationships researchers are manifesting an increased interest in investigating the concept of brand hate (e.g., Fetscherin 2019; Kucuk 2019; Zarantonello 2016). In line with this research mainstream, this ... -
I Hate This Brand! A Classification of Brand Haters Based on their Motivations and Reactions: An Abstract
( Springer Nature , 2020 , Book chapter)In the last decade, the widespread access to the Internet has favored the emergence of anti-brand communities that allow customers to express their hate feelings towards companies, their employees and their brands (Kucuk ... -
New Social Media Cinderella's: On the Double Effect of Underdog Status and Homophily on SMI Perceptions and Buying Intentions: An Abstract
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book chapter)With the rise of digitalization processes within firms, brands' significant presence on social media has become crucial for creating added value to consumers. Therefore, creating a distinct brand image and deciding which ... -
Customer participation in online co-creation experience: the role of e-service quality
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose - This exploratory paper aims to extend the research on customer co-creation behavior into an emerging market. To this end, it empirically examines the influence of e-service quality dimensions on customers' ... -
"Fight or flight": coping responses to brand hate
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2020 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the interplay between brand and consumer personalities in shaping brand hate and its consequences. More specifically, it investigates the relationship between fallacious character ... -
Is the shopper always the king/queen? Study of omnichannel retail technology use and shopping orientations
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Technology is transforming how retail services are delivered and the experience lived by consumers. Online and offline channels are converging to deliver a seamless omnichannel shopping experience. However, despite retailers' ... -
The bandwagon luxury consumption in Tunisian case: The roles of independent and interdependent self concept
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Using exploratory and confirmatory analyses, this study analyzes the impact of certain psychological and sociological factors (self-concept, social comparison, and materialism) on the "bandwagon" type of luxury consumption ... -
Student co-creation behavior in higher education: the role of satisfaction with the university experience
( Routledge , 2015 , Article)This study explores what constitutes students' satisfaction with university experience and examines the influence of overall satisfaction with the university experience on students' co-creation behavior - namely, participation ... -
Free Will or Determinism: When Fate Attributions Affect Persuasion in Road Safety Campaigns Using Fear and Guilt-An Extended Abstract
( Springer Nature , 2017 , Book chapter)Belief in fate has been studied in many fields such as anthropology, philosophy, psychology, social sciences, and even biology (Goodwin et al. 2002) and is commonly defined as a "Mysterious force, generated and directed ... -
University Social Augmenters Brand Equity: Do University Social Augmenters Possess Brand Characteristics? An Abstract
( Springer Nature , 2019 , Book chapter)Do university social augmenters have brand equity? To answer this question, the study conceptualizes, develops, and empirically examines a model of university social augmenters brand equity (USABE). We define university ... -
Foreigner service orientation: does the perception of other consumers matter?
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2020 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to develop and examine a model that links the foreigner service orientation, defined as indigenous consumers' preference for service environments popular among foreign versus local consumers, to ... -
You are what you communicate: on the relationships among university brand personality, identification, student participation, and citizenship behaviour
( Routledge , 2021 , Article)This article presents an empirical investigation of the effects university brand personality and student-university identification have on student participation and citizenship behaviour in the context of higher education. ... -
Like father like son: the role of similar-education parents in their children's university choice
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)This study draws attention to the role of similarly educated parents in their children's university choice. We conceptualise, develop, and empirically test a model that links university choice with parents' intention to ... -
The infuence of religiosity on egyptian muslim youths' attitude towards fashion
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose - The purposeof this paper is to measure the impact of the different religiosity dimensions on the attitude of Muslim youth towards fashion. Design/methodology/approach - To understand the relationship between ...