REVIEW OF LITERATURE This chapter attempts to review different literatures on customer satisfaction with reference to hotel industry and presents various studies made regarding the issues related with hotel industry and customer satisfaction. Customer – Definitions Paul S. Goldner (2006) 1 defines‚ “…a customer is any organization or individual with which you have done business over the past twelve months”. Grigoroudis‚ E and Siskos‚ Y (2009) 2 provide definition for ‘customer’ upon two approaches:
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AEREN FOUNDATION’S Maharashtra Govt. Reg. No.: F-11724 SUBJECT:-E-COMMERCE MANAGEMENT COURSE : Total Marks : 80 Attempt all the cases Case 01 GM’s E-Business Strategy INTRODUCTION US-based General Motors (GM)‚ the largest automobile company in the world‚ was in trouble in the late 1990s. The company’s market share in the US automobile market had been steadily declining from a high of 50% in the late 1960s to a low of 28% by 1999.Analysts pointed out that GM had been in the grip of a vicious
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BRAND AWARENESS Portakabin Company Portable and modular buildings for sale or hire I. TIME CONTEXT: Entrepreneurship happens when someone sees a market need and has an idea that will satisfy that need. The entrepreneur follows up‚ explores and develops the idea into a real product or service. In post-war Britain‚ in the late 1940s and 1950s‚ Donald Shepherd saw that there was a need for simple‚ easily made‚ portable buildings. These had the potential to provide
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06-4702-Conklin.qxd 5/10/2005 6:00 PM Page 561 6 INTEGRATIVE CASES I n this chapter‚ the objective is to discuss cases that draw on the frameworks and perspectives developed throughout the casebook and that include important issues from each of the earlier chapters. GM IN CHINA For GM China‚ the year 2004 brought a wide variety of new challenges that added to an already complex business environment. The industry structure was changing quickly. Demand and supply projections
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market the ground rules or ethics is under laid. For argument let’s take the case of a perfectly competitive market. * Very large number of buyers and sellers * Market power of each firm is zero (LI = 0) * Firms are equal in size * Sellers selling homogenous products * Firms use same technology and hence their cost structure is same * Price is determined by the market forces and the agents act as price takers * Free entry and exit Ethical practices that can be inferred
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Management Information Systems 13e KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON CHAPTER 12 ENHANCING DECISION MAKING FreshDirect Uses Business Intelligence to Manage its Online Grocery CASE 1 VIDEO CASE Systems SUMMARY FreshDirect is the largest online grocery firm in the New York market‚ and one of the largest in the country. With more than 250‚000 customers ordering over 8‚500 products every day‚ the company faced severe logistics and management decision making issues
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V-Guard Industries Ltd. generates greater efficiency with IBM and SAP Founded in 1977 as a small manufacturing unit‚ V-Guard Industries Ltd. (V-Guard) has grown to become one of the largest electrical appliance manufacturers in India. The company reported revenues of more than $126 million for the 2010 to 2011 financial year‚ and a 43 percent increase in net sales during the same period. V-Guard manufactures electrical products‚ including voltage stabilizers‚ wiring cables‚ pumps‚ motors‚ solar
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SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA: A CASE FOR ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP Barbara Harriss-White** and Aseem Prakash* I: Introduction Through the Constitution the Indian state promises equality to all its citizens. The various provisions of the Constitution elucidated in the chapters on Fundamental Rights (justiciable) and on Directive Principles of State Policies (non-justiciable) delineate the state’s obligation to provide equal opportunities to all its citizens in social‚ political and economic spheres.1
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Finance Case Study Dilemma of Asian Bags Asia Paper Bag has since 1990 operated as a manufacturer of plastic carrier bags supplying them on a contract-manufacturing basis to well-known supermarket chains‚ fast-food outlets‚ pharmacies and department stores. Lately‚ Asia Paper Bag exports customized plastic carrier bags to Marks n Spencer and Boots Pharmacy in the United Kingdom. During the Asian financial crisis‚ Asia Paper Bag had
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