... profitability data derived from the accounting system of a firm are matched with the responses of the firm's customers to survey questions distributed prior to the behavior and profitability outcomes. This design, then, should be seen as an attempt to respond to a frequent call for data on real behavior in studies of customer behavior. 2. Theoretical framework 2.1. Outline of the ... The number of orders is associated with customer profitability. H6: Purchase volume is associated with customer profitability. H7: Purchase amount is associated with customer profitability. 3. Research metho...

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... in the development of graphical user interface operating systems, and it has held a significant market share in the graphical design industry. On the other hand, Microsoft, now the world's biggest personal software and IT service firm, was developing its own version of a graphic based operating system. The Microsoft operating system, Disk Operating System (DOS), was designed for IBM compatible systems to run ... ...

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... and good protection of intellectual property is not ensured. Their products are in most cases collective works, which result from the collaboration between a series of creators , such as writers, composers, graphic designers, programmers, artists etc. and acquisition and management of all these rights is time taking and costly. Moreover, the creators are not protected against theft of their intellectual property due ... one - and so on. At some point, they will realize that this is not the way the world is going to work, and they are going to be forced to design a business model in whic...

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