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Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations face increasing institutional complexity as they navigate competing demands from their institutional environment regarding financial performance and environmental responsibility. In our study, we examine how 39 award‐winning organizations in the German food industry frame sufficiency, a sustainability strategy focusing on ...
Lena Leifeld, Simon Oertel
wiley   +1 more source

CONSEQUENCES OF EMPLOYEE’S CUSTOMER ORIENTATION IN PUBLIC SERVICES [PDF]

open access: yesManagement & Marketing, 2015
The goal of this paper is to explore the consequences of employee’s customer orientation in public services organizations. We will start with a literature review of the theory of customer orientation measurement and the consequences of this orientation ...
Andrada IACOB
doaj  

Customer-oriented service in retirement homes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The purpose of this thesis was to learn about the customer-orientation in public sector retirement homes in Rauma. Furthermore, the intention is to find ways how to improve the level of customer-orientation in the chosen retirement homes. The re-tirement
Grönlund, henrik
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A multipath model of salesperson performance in the financial services industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Purpose The study looks at how salesperson’s customer orientation (SCO) mediates the impact of a host of organisational, job-related and personality-related factors on salesperson performance. Previous studies that have considered the impact of customer
Edward, M, Sahadev, S, Varghese, J
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The Fatal Flaw: Unraveling Combinations of Barriers to Corporate Sustainability

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper deepens understanding of barriers to corporate sustainability by examining internal and external barriers in the food and beverage sector. Drawing on institutional theory, the study highlights how macro‐level pressures interact with meso‐level organizational dynamics.
Patricia Milić   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study on examining interrelationships among customer satisfaction, loyalty, and switching intent in industrial food suppliers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Brand loyalty is one of the most important concepts in brand literature. Customer’s loyalty toward brand can increase firm’s share price. In addition, firms’ market share maintains close relationship with net profit and capital used return.
Hamid Reza Saeedniya, Somaye Abedini
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Sustainability Performance, Cost of Debt, and Institutional Environment Quality: Global Evidence From the Hospitality and Tourism Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability performance affects the cost of debt financing in the hospitality and tourism industry and whether institutional environment quality moderates this relationship. Using a dataset of 2302 firm‐year observations from 34 countries between 2010 and 2022, the results show that sustainability performance is ...
Tantawy Moussa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Customer Services Efficiency and Market Effectiveness on Dealer Performance [PDF]

open access: yes
Market orientation is positively associated with performance of dealers in terms of customer service quality, growth in sales and increase in market share.
Rajagopal
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The influence of digital capabilities on customer orientation of service employees (COSE) and its consequences on customer satisfaction and e-WOM within Family Businesses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Customer relations have become a key matter in services businesses daily activities. Due to the intangibility of services, the employee service performance is what customers perceive as the reflection of the service quality.
González Porras J.L.   +7 more
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