Customer satisfaction, analyst stock recommendations, and firm value

Journal of Marketing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1041-1058

  Luo, Xueming ^a   Homburg, Christian ^b   Wieseke, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Customer satisfaction; Financial analysts; Marketingfinance interface; Return; Risk; Stock recommendations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650407204     PISSN: 00222437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jmkr.47.6.1041     Document Type: Article

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