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Browsing Research Articles (Marketing Management) by Title
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Slabbert, Liandi; Du Preez, Elizabeth Ann
(Routledge, 2023)
A great deal of visitor research is being produced, yet sub-optimal use thereof in practice raises concerns. This study is the first to measure actual levels of utilisation of visitor research in tourism and recreation ...
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Jordaan, Yolanda; Ehlers, Lene; Grove, J.M.
(Southern African Communication Association, 2011-07)
Generation Y consumers have become an important consumer group and, as a result, their
perceptions of media credibility has become an important issue for many organisations and
media planners. This study explores the ...
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Govender, Kamantha; Chuchu, Tinashe; Maziriri, Eugine Tafadzwa; Nascimento Cunha, Maria
(Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences at Texas AandM University, 2020-11)
The impact that local residents play in the promotion and marketing of a destination whether directly or indirectly can not be ignored. This is particularly associated with the the destinations’ image. The concept of ...
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Van Heerden, Cornelius Hendrik, 1957-; Van Heerden, Neels, 1957-; Du Plessis, P.J.
(Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2004-03)
The aim of this paper is to establish a framework that may contribute to African sport manager's understanding of sport sponsorship management and decision-making. In this paper a number of focus areas, that outline the ...
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Minnaar, Pierre; Mototo, Lebogang; Chuchu, Tinashe
(International Association of Online Engineering, 2020)
The purpose of the study was to conduct an empirical research on adoption of the technology acceptance model on investigating consumers’ intention to-wards the acceptance of branded mobile applications in South Africa. ...
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Van der Merwe, Michelle Caroline; Mostert, P.G. (Pierre); Ndoro, T.T. (Tinashe); Svensson, Goran; Chuchu, Tinashe
(Routledge, 2024)
PURPOSE : The paper uses an ongoing business-to-business (B2B) relationship perspective to establish the interrelationships between trust, commitment, and relationship satisfaction (as relational constructs) and specific ...
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Maziriri, E.T.; Chuchu, Tinashe; Madinga, N.W.
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-10)
ORIENTATION : In the contemporary business environment, employee mental health is neglected, especially in mental health research and practice in African Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). This occurs even though ...
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Kotze, Theuns G.; Mostert, P.G. (Pierre)
(Routledge, 2023)
This paper compares two store-level models of the antecedents of frontline employees’ in-role and extra-role service performance in a retail setting. In the climate-centric research model, service climate serves as a direct ...
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Petzer, Daniël Johannes; Van Tonder, Estelle; Fullerton, Sam
(AOSIS, 2023-11-03)
BACKGROUND : Consumers are known to help others engage in consumption and anticonsumption
practices. It is argued that behavioural involvement and social norm perceptions
may motivate customers to help other customers ...
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Gwinji, Wedzerai Andrew; Chiliya, Norman; Chuchu, Tinashe; Ndoro, T.T. (Tinashe)
(Adonis and Abbey Publishers, 2020-03)
The concept of internal marketing has received much attention from researchers
and academics alike. This study, therefore, investigated internal marketing as a
strategy to achieve sustainable competitive advantage in the ...
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Olivier, I.; Fletcher, M.
(Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2000-06)
With the current focus on establishing long-term customer relationships, the enhancement of the entire shopping experience and the role of atmosphere and the emotional reactions it elicits, are becoming increasingly ...
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Jordaan, Yolanda; Kourantas, Stamatia
(Southern African Communication Association, 2001-07)
It has been said that there are three things that are going to drive the world's economic future. Firstly, computers; secondly, communications; and thirdly, direct marketing. There are countries that have reached the stage ...
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Petzer, Daniël Johannes; Mostert, P.G. (Pierre)
(Unisa Press, 2012)
It is imperative that service organisations implement effective
service recovery strategies when customers experience a service
failure, since unresolved service failures can result in customers
spreading negative ...
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Van der Waldt, De la Rey; Rebello, T.M.; Brown, W.J.
(Academic Journals, 2009-09)
Technological advancements have provided various new mediums for advertising to consumers and have further allowed organisations to better reach consumers with regards to the frequency and impact
of advertising. Advertisers ...
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Matipedza, Tinashe; Sampa, Michael; Ndoro, T.T. (Tinashe); Chuchu, Tinashe
(AfricaJournals, 2019)
Youths are increasingly travelling to live, study and work in different parts of South Africa. A significant population of the youth in South Africa are opening bank accounts. In this vein, youth tourists have become an ...
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Petzer, Daniël Johannes; Mostert, P.G. (Pierre)
(Academic Journals, 2012)
This paper measures the attitude of banking customers towards complaining and their likelihood to
complain when a service failure is experienced at their current and another bank. Insight is also
provided into the service ...
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Wiese, Melanie; Du Plessis, Giselle M.
(Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2014)
The objective of this study was to investigate students’ acceptance and use of e-textbooks to enable libraries to make more informed decisions about their e-book collections. The data were collected in a classroom situation, ...
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Van der Merwe, Kelsey; Maree, Tania
(Wiley, 2016-07)
More than 1.6 billion cups of coffee are consumed worldwide on a daily basis. South Africa
is rapidly adapting to worldwide trends with speciality coffee consumption on the rise, with
South Africa recently having been ...
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Maree, Tania; Van Heerden, Gene
(Emerald, 2021-02)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this study is to explore customer engagement (CE) in Facebook brand communities. It clusters Facebook brand fans to establish whether an existing typology holds in a diverse sample, and examines ...
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Harmse, Chris; Jordaan, Andre Cillie; Jordaan, Yolanda
(University of Wisconsin Press in cooperation with the Institute for Media Analysis in South Africa (iMasa) and the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2001)
For more than a decade the Big Mac index has served as a guide to the layman as to whether currencies are at their ‘correct’ exchange rate level. This article compares the postal rate of a standard letter in South Africa, ...