Abstract:In the past, customers expected of producers to deliver goods and services on time, with good quality and cheap price. The business was mostly relationship-based and the middlemen in distribution chain were powerful. Alongside the wide distribution of products, the main competition was for maintaining services and developing products and facilitating customers' purchase not for maintaining customers' relationship. But nowadays, organizations work in a complex and dynamic environment, the competition between or… Show more
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