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Business and Management

D-Index
52
Citations
39354
World Ranking
841
National Ranking
362

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - AMA-Irwin-McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, American Marketing Association
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Marketing Association

Overview

Ruth N. Bolton is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Marketing and related subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Ocean Engineering, and Strategy and Management.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Service and Product Innovation
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Ruth N. Bolton has published in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Australian Energy Producers journal.
  • Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ)
  • Journal of Services Marketing
  • Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • Journal of Service Research

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "The Convergence of Sustainability and Marketing: Transforming Marketing to Respond to a New World" (2021) in Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ)
  • "Commentary: future directions of the service discipline" (2020) in Journal of Services Marketing
  • "Designing satisfying service encounters: website versus store touchpoints" (2021) in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • "Member Retention and Donations in Nonprofit Service Organizations: The Balance Between Peer and Organizational Identification" (2020) in Journal of Service Research
  • "Managing a Global Retail Brand in Different Markets: Meta-Analyses of Customer Responses to Service Encounters" (2021) in Journal of Retailing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ruth N. Bolton include:

  • Anders Gustafsson
  • Crina O. Tarasi
  • Lars Witell
  • Di Fang
  • Paul W. Fombelle

Ruth N. Bolton has received the following awards:

  • Fellow of the American Marketing Association (2016)
  • AMA-Irwin-McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, American Marketing Association (2016)

Best Publications

  • A Multistage Model of Customers' Assessments of Service Quality and Value

    Ruth N. Bolton;James H. Drew

  • A model of customer satisfaction with service encounters involving failure and recovery

    Amy K. Smith;Ruth N. Bolton;Janet Wagner

  • A Dynamic Model of the Duration of the Customer's Relationship with a Continuous Service Provider: The Role of Satisfaction

    Stephen C. Graves;David B. Kletter;William B. Hetzel;Ruth N. Bolton

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Service Changes on Customer Attitudes

    Ruth N. Bolton;James H. Drew

  • Understanding Generation Y and their use of social media: a review and research agenda

    Ruth N. Bolton;A. Parasuraman;Ankie Hoefnagels;Nanne Migchels

  • A dynamic model of customers' usage of services : usage as an antecedent and consequence of satisfaction

    Ruth N. Bolton;Katherine N. Lemon

  • IMPLICATIONS OF LOYALTY PROGRAM MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE EXPERIENCES FOR CUSTOMER RETENTION AND VALUE

    Ruth N. Bolton;P. K. Kannan;Matthew D. Bramlett

  • The Service-dominant Logic of Marketing: Dialog, Debate, and Directions

    Robert F. Lusch;Stephen L. Vargo;Ruth N. Bolton;Frederick E. Webster

  • A Model of Customer Satisfaction with Service Encounters Involving Failure and Recovery

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  • An Experimental Investigation of Customer Reactions to Service Failure and Recovery Encounters Paradox or Peril

    Amy K. Smith;Ruth N. Bolton

  • The Effect of Customers' Emotional Responses to Service Failures on Their Recovery Effort Evaluations and Satisfaction Judgments

    Amy K. Smith;Ruth N. Bolton

  • The Theoretical Underpinnings of Customer Asset Management: A Framework and Propositions for Future Research

    Ruth N. Bolton;Katherine N. Lemon;Peter C. Verhoef

  • The Theoretical Underpinnings of Customer Asset Management: A Framework and Propositions for Future Research

    Ruth N. Bolton;Katherine N. Lemo;Peter C. Verhoef;Katherine N. Lemon

  • Customer-to-customer interactions: Broadening the scope of word of mouth research

    Barak Libai;Ruth Bolton;Marnix S. Bügel;Ko de Ruyter

  • Customer experience challenges: bringing together digital, physical and social realms

    Ruth N. Bolton;Janet R. McColl-Kennedy;Lilliemay Cheung;Andrew Gallan

  • A triadic framework for collaborative consumption (CC): Motives, activities and resources & capabilities of actors

    Sabine Benoit;Thomas L. Baker;Ruth N. Bolton;Thorsten Gruber

  • Interactive Services: A Framework, Synthesis and Research Directions

    Ruth Bolton;Shruti Saxena-Iyer

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Service Changes on Customer Attitudes

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  • A Dynamic Model of Customers' Usage of Services: Usage as an Antecedent and Consequence of Satisfaction

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  • Marketing Actions and the Value of Customer Assets: A Framework for Customer Asset Management

    Paul D. Berger;Ruth N. Bolton;Douglas Bowman;Elten Briggs

  • Small details that make big differences : A radical approach to consumption experience as a firm's differentiating strategy

    Ruth N. Bolton;Anders Gustafsson;Janet McColl-Kennedy;Nancy J. Sirianni

  • Linking Customer Satisfaction to Service Operations and Outcomes

    Ruth N. Bolton;James H. Drew

  • The Relationship Between Market Characteristics and Promotional Price Elasticities

    Ruth N. Bolton

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine N. Lemon
Katherine N. Lemon Boston College
Anders Gustafsson
Anders Gustafsson BI Norwegian Business School
Venkatesh Shankar
Venkatesh Shankar Southern Methodist University
Lars Witell
Lars Witell Karlstad University
Peter C. Verhoef
Peter C. Verhoef University of Groningen
Thorsten Gruber
Thorsten Gruber Loughborough University
Ananthanarayanan Parasuraman
Ananthanarayanan Parasuraman University of Miami
Valarie A. Zeithaml
Valarie A. Zeithaml University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Timothy L. Keiningham
Timothy L. Keiningham St. John's University
Janet R. McColl-Kennedy
Janet R. McColl-Kennedy University of Queensland

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