Staying the consumption course[elect...
Schulte, Benjamin Krischan.

 

  • Staying the consumption course[electronic resource] :exploring the individual lock-in process in service relationships /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 658.834
    Title/Author: Staying the consumption course : exploring the individual lock-in process in service relationships // by Benjamin Krischan Schulte.
    Author: Schulte, Benjamin Krischan.
    Published: Wiesbaden : : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden :, 2015.
    Description: xvii, 228 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    Subject: Consumer behavior.
    Subject: Consumption (Economics)
    Subject: Decision making.
    Subject: Service industries.
    Subject: Consumer decision making.
    Subject: Economics/Management Science.
    Subject: Marketing.
    Subject: Operation Research/Decision Theory.
    Subject: Market Research.
    ISBN: 9783658087883 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9783658087876 (paper)
    [NT 15000229]: Benjamin Krischan Schulte develops a process-model of consumer lock-in in service relationships by connecting three areas of research: path dependence, consumer behavior and service relationship marketing. He defines consumer lock-in as a situation of a potentially unaware inability to switch from or exit a consumption process due to entrenchment with increasing barriers on the individual and/or social level. Switching barriers are elaborated as consumer lock-in mechanisms. The resulting process model is outlined and empirically examined in an explorative panel study of a service relationship process in higher education. The author´s findings support the presence of consumer lock-in in services as an idiosyncratic process of gradual entrapment. The phenomenon has relevance for researchers and practitioners in complex service relationships, where lock-in was found to be a likely occurrence but difficult to grasp. Contents Theoretical Foundation: Path Dependence, Consumer Behavior and Service Relationship Research Model of the Consumer Lock-in Process Longitudinal Study with Service Consumers in a Higher Education Service Target Groups Researchers, teachers and students of business with a focus on consumer behavior and relationship-marketing, particularly the process in complex service relationships Executives and consultants in services companies with the core areas strategy, CRM, and customer retention The Author Benjamin Krischan Schulte obtained a Doctoral Degree in Business from Freie Universität Berlin in 2014.
    Online resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08788-3
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