...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Microfinance industry is now affected by strong competition : “ commercial banks have begun to target MFIs’ traditional customers , new MFIs have continued to be created in microfinance industry, the microfinance clientele is becoming more sophisticated concerning the quality of service they require or expect”( Daubert 2002) . These factors may negatively affect the MFIs. In fact, the microfinance industry is losing customers because of both the aggressive competition and MFIs’ weakness to satisfy their clients (Urguizo 2006). This simple description shows why MFIs are concerned about customer satisfaction and retention. It justifies also why they must “pay attention to understand their customers’ preferences and priorities” (IFAD 2007) to survive in a competitive environment. The microfinance industry is quite slowly in becoming more “market oriented” and it seems that customer satisfaction is one of the important tools to run a business and to achieve the mission statement (on sustainability and outreach) in this sector. Customer satisfaction is an evaluative process, it is defined as “… a judgment that a product of service feature, or the product or service itself, provided (or is providing) a pleasurable level of consumption related fulfillment, including levels of under or over fulfillment” (Oliver 1997, 13) cited by ( Swaid 2007; Hom 2002). Customer satisfaction is “captured as positive feeling (satisfaction)...
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...CST, Mumbai 400 001 Certificate This is to certify that Pathan Shahid Zuber Khan, a student of Anjuman-I-Islam’s Allana Institute of Management Studies (AIAIMS) pursuing final year in MMS has completed the dissertation report on Market analysis of LG consumer durables in the 2014-15 Date:__________________ Place:__________________ _____________________Prof. Rafana KaziProject GuideAIAIMS | ________________________Dr. Lukman PatelDirectorAIAIMS | DECLARATION Project Title: Market analysis of LG consumer durables Submitted on: Under the Guidance of: Prof. Rafana Kazi College: Allana Institute of Management Studies (AIAIMS) This is to declare that I, Pathan Shahid Khan, student of Allana Institute of Management Studies (AIAIMS) IVth semester (Marketing) hereby declare that I have completed the project on Market analysis of LG consumer durables in the Academic year 2015 The information submitted is true and original to the best of my knowledge. Date: <Date of Submission> Place: Mumbai (SIGNATURE) Pathan Shahid Khan MMS II Year2014-15– B, 39 Specialization – Marketing Acknowledgement I take this opportunity in expressing the fact that this project report is the result of incredible amount of encouragement, co-operation, and moral support that I have received from others. Words alone cannot express my gratitude from the core of my heart to my Mentor Prof. Rafana Kazi, who provided me with her...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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