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Return on Marketing: Using Customer Equity to Focus Marketing Strategy
- R. Rust, K. Lemon, Valarie A Zeithaml
- Business
- 1 January 2004
The authors present a unified strategic framework that enables competing marketing strategy options to be traded off on the basis of projected financial return, which is operationalized as the change… Expand
Measuring Marketing Productivity: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
- R. Rust, T. Ambler, G. Carpenter, V. Kumar, R. Srivastava
- Business
- 1 October 2004
For too long, marketers have not been held accountable for showing how marketing expenditures add to shareholder value. As time has gone by, this lack of accountability has undermined marketers’… Expand
Reliability Measures for Qualitative Data: Theory and Implications
Data based on qualitative judgments are prevalent in both academic research in marketing and applied marketing research. Reliability measurement of qualitative data is important to determine the… Expand
Service Quality: Insights and Managerial Implications from the Frontier
- R. Rust, Richard L. Oliver
- Business
- 1994
Customer Satisfaction, Productivity, and Profitability: Differences Between Goods and Services
- E. Anderson, C. Fornell, R. Rust
- Economics
- 1 May 1997
There is widespread belief that firms should pursue superiority in both customer satisfaction and productivity. However, there is reason to believe these two goals are not always compatible. If a… Expand
Customer satisfaction, customer retention, and market share
- R. Rust, A. Zahorik
- Business
- 1 June 1993
Abstract We provide a mathematical framework for assessing the value of customer satisfaction. The framework enables managers to determine which customer satisfaction elements have the greatest… Expand
Return on Quality (ROQ): Making Service Quality Financially Accountable
- R. Rust, A. Zahorik, Timothy L. Keiningham
- Business
- 1 April 1995
Many companies have been disappointed by a lack of results from their quality efforts. The financial benefits of quality, which had been assumed as a matter of faith in the “religion of quality,” are… Expand
Willingness-to-Pay for Crime Control Programs
- Mark A. Cohen, R. Rust, S. Steen, Simon T. Tidd
- Economics, Business
- 1 November 2001
This paper reports on a new methodology to estimate the "cost of crime." We adapt the contingent valuation method used in the environmental economics literature to estimate the public's… Expand
Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing: Guidelines for Rigor
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The Path to Customer Centricity
- Denish Shah, R. Rust, A. Parasuraman, R. Staelin, G. Day
- Business
- 1 November 2006
The concept of customer centricity and its benefits have been discussed for more than 50 years. Despite this fact, many firms are still struggling to fully align themselves to the customer-centric… Expand