... satisfaction (Knowles, Diamantis and El-Mourhab, 2004). 5.0 Trend of Corporate Sustainability In the hotel industry, there are many organizations that are starting to embrace social responsibility at a higher pace (Kotler et al, 2010). Many organizations in the industry now appreciate the benefits of being socially responsible and they are also seeing the marketing benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR). An increasing number ... more potent brand name for the organization in question. Another benefit of being an active CSR role in the industry is that is helps attract custome...

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... IT in multi-firm forms. Such forms increase new matters of risk allocation, supplementary investments, value creation, incentives, adoption, absorption and capability building among co-operating firms (Barua et al, 2004). This report aims at analyzing the article "Co-creating business value of information technology (IT) which is carried out by Yi Jiang and Jing Zhao " two ... to organize their processes along supply chains, involving in upstream procurement as well as downstream customer services, general information sharing, sales and operation collaborating along their supply chain (...

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... interest and articles appeared in the academic literature (Dyer, 1982; Coulson-Thomas, 1983). From the beginning of the 1990s IMC became a real hot topic in the field of marketing (Caywood et al., 1991; Miller and Rose, 1994; Kitchen and Schultz, 1999). Few years back , major portion of marketing budgets went to advertising ,but now the scene has changed, it is allocated into ... and increased the segmentation of consumer tastes/preferences. The key has been 'value' and several combinations of methods are used, all aiming to raise benefits and reduce costs. Smith et al. (1999) have...

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... to delay or cancel such marketing initiatives. IMC strategies look at interrelated components including 1) the use of multiple communication media; and 2) the consistency of messages achieved across these media. (Peltier, et al., 2013). The company may elect to evaluate customer psycho-demographic data to beter assess and understand the impact of values, buying motivations, attitudes, beliefs, and lifestyles, coupled together with gender ... ...

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