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020 _a9780071154123
020 _a0071154124
082 _a658.812
_bOLI
100 _aOliver, Richard L.
245 _aSatisfaction : a behavioral perspective on the consumer
260 _aNew York :
_bMcGraw Hill,
_c©1997.
300 _axvi, 432 pages :
_billustrations ;
500 _aIncludes index
505 _aPrologue -- WHAT IS SATISFACTION? -- What is customer satisfaction? -- BASIC SATISFACTION MECHANISMS -- The performance of attributes, features, and dimensions -- Expectations and related comparative standards -- The expectancy disconfirmation model of satisfaction -- ALTERNATIVE AND SUPPLEMENTARY COMPARATIVE OPERATORS -- Need fulfillment in a consumer satisfaction context -- Quality: The object of desire -- Equity: How consumers interpret fairness -- Regret and hindsight: What might have been and what I knew would be -- SATISFACTION PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS -- Cognitive dissonance: Fears of what the future will bring -- Why did it happen? Attribution in the satisfaction process -- Emotional expression in the satisfaction response -- Developing a model of consumption processing -- SATISFACTION'S CONSEQUENCES: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? -- After satisfaction: The short run consequences -- Loyalty and profit: Long-term effects of satisfaction --
520 _a This work examines the meaning, causes, and consequences of customer satisfaction. The author broadens the determinants of psychological satisfaction to include needs, excellence (quality), fairness, and regret (what might have been). It concludes with chapters on post-purchase consequences.
650 _aConsumer satisfaction.
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