Accessible web design is crucial for creating equal access to the internet for everyone. While numerous guidelines and standards exist to promote accessibility, it is often of low priority among professionals and unfortunately many websites remain inaccessible to people with disabilities. Accessible web design is often seen as a checkbox task, believed to decrease usability for people without disabilities, to result in less attractive designs, and be economically challenging to justify. Previous research has disproved some of these beliefs by demonstrating that accessible design enhances usability for all users. However, there remains a gap in research regarding the economic incentives associated with accessible design.  Therefore, this thesis aimed to investigate the impact of accessible web design on purchase intentions and customer experience. This was done by evaluating and redesigning an existing website for accessibility and subsequently conducting comparative testing between the two versions of the website.  The comparative testing consisted of A/B and user testing. Purchase intention was measured using statements derived from prior studies, alongside statements measuring concepts related to purchase intention. Furthermore, the customer experience was assessed using the After Scenario Questionnaire (ASQ), the System Usability Scale (SUS), and conducting user interviews.  The results show that accessible redesign positively influences purchase intentions and indicate that one possible primary contributor to this is an increase in information quality on the website. The customer experience showed no significant differences between the two versions, although user interviews revealed a small rise in user preference for the more accessible version.  In conclusion, this study shows that a redesign with a focus on accessibility increases user intentions to purchase while at the same time not decreasing the customer experience on the website. Hopefully, these results can contribute to creating a more accessible web for all users.

Titel: Den digitaliserade revisionsprocessens konsekvenser för kundupplevelsen - En kvalitativ studie av revisorn och kundens perspektiv Författare: Måns Bertilsson och Oscar Sjöberg Handledare: Hans Landström Bakgrund: Digitaliseringen har haft en betydande påverkan på revisionsbranschen genom att effektivisera processer och möjliggör analyser baserade på stora datamängder. En av de mest märkbara förändringarna är att kontakten mellan revisorer och kunder har blivit mer distansbaserad. Detta examensarbete syftar till att beskriva och analysera hur digitaliseringen har påverkat olika delar av revisionsprocessen, inklusive planering, granskning och rapportering, samt hur detta påverkat kundernas upplevelse av revisionen. Studien jämför revisorns och kundens perspektiv för att identifiera eventuella skillnader i upplevelsen av samma process. Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att beskriva och analysera hur revisorer upplever att digitaliseringen har påverkat revisionsprocessens olika delar, planering, granskning och rapportering. Vidare ämnar studien att beskriva och analysera vilka effekter digitaliseringen har på kundens upplevelse av revisionens olika delar. Slutligen ska de två perspektiven jämföras för att se om det föreligger skillnader i upplevelsen av samma process. Frågeställning: Hur upplever revisorer och kunder revisionen till följd av en ökad digitalisering av revisionsprocessen? Metod: Studien är kvalitativ med en abduktiv forskningsansats. Informationsinhämtningen har skett genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem revisorer och fem kunder till revision. Slutsatser: Studiens slutsatser visar på att digitaliseringen har effektiviserat revisionsprocessen och ökat kvaliteten av revisionen. Den högre kvaliteten märks inte av kunden. Kundernas grad av digitalisering har en viss påverkan på hur en revision utförs. En annan slutsats är att kontakten mellan revisor och kund blivit mer distansbaserad, vilket båda parter kan uppskatta när det gäller effektivitetsvinster. Däremot har det lett till att kunderna saknar den personliga kontakten. / Title: The consequences of the digitalized audit process on customer experience - A qualitative study of auditors and customers perspective Authors: Måns Bertilsson and Oscar Sjöberg Supervisor: Hans Landström Background: Digitalization has had a significant impact on the auditing industry by streamlining processes and enabling analyses based on large amounts of data. One of the most noticeable changes is that the contact between auditors and clients has become more distance-based. This thesis aims to describe and analyze how digitalization has affected various parts of the auditing process, including planning, examination, and reporting, as well as how this has influenced the clients experience of the audit. The study compares the auditors and the clients perspectives to identify any differences in the experience of the same process. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to describe and analyze how auditors perceive the impact of digitalization on the audit process, including planning, examination and reporting. Furthermore, the study aims to describe and analyze the effect of digitalization on the clients experience on the various parts of the audit. Lastly, the two perspectives will be compared to identify if there are any differences in the perception of the same process. Research question: How do auditors and clients perceive the audit as a result of increased digitization of the audit process? Method: The study is qualitative with an abductive research approach. Data collection has been conducted through semi-structured interviews with five auditors and five clients of audit. Conclusions: The study's conclusions show that digitalization has made the audit process more efficient and increased the quality of the audit. The higher quality is not noticed by the customer. The customer's level of digitalization has a certain influence on how an audit is carried out. Another conclusion is that the contact between auditor and client has become more distance-based, which both parties can appreciate in terms of efficiency. However, this has led to customers missing the personal contact.

Titel - En gallerias kommersiella miljö: Besökarens individuella upplevelse Ämne - Företagsekonomi, kandidatuppsats på C-nivå Författare - Hilda Gustafsson, My Kristiansson & Camilla Romberg Handledare - Dan Halvarsson Frågeställningar - Hur är den individuella besöksupplevelsen i en gallerias kommersiella miljöer, utifrån människans fem sinnen och dess multisensoriska sinnesupplevelse? Vad påverkar den individuella besöksupplevelsen i en gallerias kommersiella miljöer, utifrån människans fem sinnen och dess multisensoriska sinnesupplevelse? Syfte - Syftet med denna studie är att studera och skapa förståelse för hur besökaren uppmärksammar en gallerias kommersiella miljö, samt hur denna miljö påverkar besökarens individuella upplevelse utifrån sinnesmarkandsföring. Detta då få studier inom ämnet i sinnesmarkandsföring har genomförts. Metod - Studien innefattar ett induktivt synsätt och en kvalitativ metod. Studien har fokuserat på två torg som finns i gallerian Emporia i Malmö. Där har det utförts semistrukturerade intervjuer vid insamling av empirisk data. Analys - Utgångspunkten i studien är sinnesmarknadsföring, som handlar om hur olika sinnen enskilt samt i kombination har stimulerat besökare och påverkat deras upplevelse i en galleria. Empirin har sedan sammankopplats med teorier inom sinnesmarknadsföring. Slutsats - Båda torgen väckte stor uppmärksamhet hos intervjupersonerna. Generellt upplevdes det Gröna torget som positivt för intervjupersonerna medan det Blå torget upplevdes som både positivt och negativt. / Title - The servicescape in a shopping mall: The visitors’ individual experience Subject - Business Economics, bachelor thesis Authors - Hilda Gustafsson, My Kristiansson & Camilla Romberg Tutor - Dan Halvarsson Presentation of the questions - How is the visitors’ individual experience in a shopping mall, on the basis of the human five senses and multisensory? What affects the visitors’ individual experience in a shopping malls servicescape, on the basis of the human five senses and multisensory? Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to study and create an understanding of how the visitor recognizes the shopping mall produced servicescapes, and how this servicescapes affects the visitor's individual experience based on sensory marketing. This is because few studies are conducted on the subject sensory marketing. Method - The study includes an inductive approach and a qualitative method. The study have been focused on two servicescapes that are in the shopping mall Emporia in Malmö, where there were used semi-structured interviews to gather empirical data. Analyse - The starting point was based on sensory marketing. It was about how different senses individually and combined had stimulated visitors and affected their experience in a shopping mall. The empirical data has then been linked with theories of sensory marketing. Conclusions - Both of the servicescapes attracted attention from the interviewed people. The interviewed people at the Green servicescape had a positive experience and at the Blue servicescape, did they have both positive and negative experience.

The analysis of the concept of customer experience, the types and peculiarities of customer experience, the concepts of experience and experiential marketing, the meaning and differences between these two concepts, the main aspects and peculiarities of these concepts are presented in the theoretical part of the thesis. This part of the paper also focuses on the explanation of the concept of hospitality and the composition of the sector of hospitality services. The peculiarities of hospitality customers, their experiences and application of experience marketing in the sector of hospitality are also explained in the theoretical section. The theoretical modelling of the effect of hospitality customers on customer satisfaction and intentions was made after the analysis of all the concepts mentioned. In order to reason the methodology of future research, the second part of the paper presents the empirical studies performed by other scientists. The methodological reasoning of research, instruments, logical structure of research and description of research process are described in the second part of the thesis. The third part of the paper presents research results and their interpretations regarding the effect of customer experience on satisfaction and intentions of hospitality customers based on experience marketing. Research results permits to confirm the hypotheses of the research and show the strength and relationships between variables researched. Having considered research... [to full text] / Teorinėje disertacijos darbo dalyje išnagrinėta vartotojų patirties sąvoka, išanalizuoti vartotojų patirties tipai, pateikiant jų sampratas ir ypatumus, pateikta patirties ir patyriminio marketingo sąvokos, išsiaiškinta šių sąvokų prasmė ir skirtumai, bei pateikiami pagrindiniai šios koncepcijos aspektai ir ypatumai. Išanalizuota svetingumo samprata bei apibrėžta svetingumo paslaugų sektoriaus sudėtis. Pateikti svetingumo paslaugų vartotojų ir jų patirčių bei patirties marketingo taikymo ypatumai šiame sektoriuje. Atlikus šių koncepcijų analizę, atliktas svetingumo paslaugų vartotojų patirties poveikio vartotojų pasitenkinimui ir ketinimams teorinis modeliavimas. Antrojoje darbo dalyje, norint pagrįsti būsimo tyrimo metodologiją, aptarti kitų mokslininkų atlikti empiriniai tyrimai. Pateikiamas metodologinis tyrimo pagrindimas, instrumentarijai, loginė tyrimo struktūra ir tyrimo proceso aprašymas. Trečiojoje darbo dalyje yra pateikiami vartotojų patirties poveikio svetingumo paslaugų vartotojų pasitenkinimui ir ketinimams patirties marketingo pagrindu tyrimo rezultatai ir jų interpretacijos. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė darbe keliamų hipotezių patvirtinimą bei stiprumą ir ryšius tarp tiriamų kintamųjų. Gavus tyrimo rezultatus, atskiriems svetingumo paslaugų sektoriams yra pateikiamos rekomendacijos, kaip vertinti ir valdyti skirtingas vartotojų patirtis.

Background: Organizations are continuously challenged to create differentiated customer value and experience to increase profitability and gain competitive advantage. At the same time, the fast-paced advancement of technologies provides the opportunity to the organizations to create a differentiated customer value by offering innovative products and services. Internet of things (IoTs) is one such emerging technology that brings within itself opportunities and challenges to be addressed. However, so far research has not sufficiently followed how the utilization of IoTs can enhance customer value and experience. Purpose: The purpose of conducting this study is to explore how the utilization of IoTs enhance customer value and experience in an equipment manufacturers context and what are the associated opportunities and challenges. The study also aims to contribute to gap identified in the literature about how organizations can utilize IoTs to enhance customer value and experience. Method: The qualitative study utilized a single instrumental case study to explore the research questions. The data is collected by conducting semi-structured in-depth interviews. Conclusion: The study reveals that the utilization of IoTs can significantly improve customer value and experience in many ways. This may involve enabling user to monitor, control and optimally use the equipment, sharing useful information, allowing value co-creation and synergistic values and finally by providing autonomous equipment’s or solutions. However, the study also reveals that the utilization of IoTs also pose certain challenges along with the opportunities which must be carefully evaluated.

In a fast-changing retail environment, including hard competition and demanding consumers, the customer experience of the purchasing service is crucial to gain a competitive advantage. Since consumers are to some extent moving from offline to online, and from desktop shopping to purchasing clothing in a mobile application, there is a need for investigating consumers expectations of their experience of a mobile application. The existing and performance of attributes and functions determines the satisfaction of the user experience, which is why it is reasonable to investigate expectations concerning attributes. The finding and classification of quality attributes in mobile applications in the fashion industry was the main goal of this thesis. Attributes were found using a qualitative study including 16 interviews, where respondents field tested already existing applications. The reasonability to further investigate these attributes was confirmed by a literature research. After finding 35 relevant attributes, these were investigated and analysed using the Theory of Attractive Quality and a 5-level Kano questionnaire. The analysis was conducted using the Theory of Attractive Quality, classifying attributes according to the Kano chart of evaluation. Further, each attribute was analysed using tools such as better/worse diagrams and self-stated importance values. The classification results from the questionnaire were that “Choose product size” was categorised as Must-Be, “Loading speed” as One-Dimensional, eight quality attributes were combinations of classifications, and 25 were classified as Indifferent. A number of 510 respondents answered the questionnaire. The classification of attributes implies that customers are rather indifferent to attributes during their shopping experience. However, further analysis concludes that even though many attributes are classified as Indifferent, many attributes need to be considered, according to the better/worse values and diagrams, which are useful regarding resource allocation. According to the classification and better/worse diagrams, one can distinguish a difference between genders: male respondents proved to be more indifferent to their shopping experience than females. Analysis of the data also shows a difference between age groups. The two youngest age groups including respondents born in 1990-1994 and 1995-2000, had higher better and worse values, implying that younger people expect more from their shopping user experience. Conclusively, this report resulted in an overview of consumers’ expectations regarding their experience when shopping in a fashion mobile application. The Theory of Attractive Quality is a useful method when measuring perceived and expected quality; however, each investigative occasion demands different method setup, adjusting for specific attribute types, as well as business. Some improvements can be made regarding the Theory of Attractive Quality, increasing the chances of a better result.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-09-21T15:03:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabiano Mattana_.pdf: 3816938 bytes, checksum: e533a5d2119b0afeba12f4cbf525b176 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-21T15:03:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabiano Mattana_.pdf: 3816938 bytes, checksum: e533a5d2119b0afeba12f4cbf525b176 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-11 / Nenhuma / Este estudo procurou atender ao objetivo geral de mensurar o nível de satisfação com o modelo de relacionamento digital dos clientes dos Escritórios de Negócios Exclusivos do Banco do Brasil situados no Rio Grande do Sul. O estudo de caso foi realizado em uma das maiores instituições financeiras brasileiras e mundiais. Conforme a estratégia corporativa do Banco do Brasil, a empresa realizou uma reestruturação no modelo de relacionamento com clientes, em implementação desde 2015, criando novas estruturas de atendimento específicas para determinados segmentos, dentre eles os escritórios exclusivos. A pesquisa teve uma etapa qualitativa, com uma análise documental interna da instituição e a realização de uma entrevista semiestruturada com os gestores dos escritórios, com o intuito de verificar a estratégia e as bases do modelo de negócios, bem como identificar as percepções e as dificuldades encontradas na implantação dessa nova estrutura. A etapa quantitativa foi realizada para mensurar o nível de satisfação dos clientes em relação à qualidade dos serviços prestados pelos escritórios, com aplicação de uma survey eletrônica utilizando como base a Escala Servqual, de Parasuraman, Zeithaml e Berry (1988), que mede a diferença entre as expectativas e a percepção dos clientes em cinco dimensões: tangibilidade, confiabilidade, compreensão, segurança e empatia. Os dados gerados foram tratados com a aplicação de análises estatísticas multivariadas. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que os clientes do Banco do Brasil estão satisfeitos com os serviços oferecidos através do modelo digital e a nova estrutura de negócios, no qual lhes é oferecido um atendimento humanizado agregado ao melhor da tecnologia. Percebeu-se, também, que o “mundo digital” provavelmente não substituirá o “mundo físico”, eles serão complementares, os escritórios digitais e as agências físicas irão coexistir e que o Banco do Brasil está aprimorando, assim, a entrega da proposta de valor e de uma melhor experiência aos clientes, permitindo rentabilizá-los, satisfazê-los e fidelizá-los. / This study sought to meet general measure goal of measuring the level of satisfaction with the digital relationship model customers of Banco do Brasil Exclusive Business Offices situated in Rio Grande do Sul. The case study was conducted in one of the largest Brazilian and global financial institutions. As the Banco do Brasil corporate strategy, the company conducted a restructuring relationship model with customers, in implementation since 2015, creating new specific service structures for certain segments, among them exclusive offices. Research had a qualitative step analyzing several documents of the institution and internal conducting a semi-structured interview with managers offices, in order to check the strategy and the foundations of business model, as well as identify perceptions and the difficulties encountered in implementing this new structure. Quantitative step was held to measure the level of customer satisfaction to the quality of services provided by offices, with applying an electronic survey using as a base the Servqual Scale of Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (1988), which measures the difference between customers’ expectations and perception in five dimensions: tangibility, reliability, understanding, safety and empathy. The data generated were treated through with the application multivariate statistical analysis. The results show that Banco do Brasil customers are satisfied with the services offered through the digital model and the new business structure, in which they are offered a service humanized household with the best technology. It was noticed, also, that the “digital world” probably won’t replace the “physical world”, they are complementary, digital offices and physical agencies will coexist and that Banco do Brasil is improving, like this, value proposition delivery and customers better experience, allowing monetize them, satisfy them and loyalty them.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo de Tarso Barberio.pdf: 1628573 bytes, checksum: 1e556fde0f4352a86f3ad203fbbbef6b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-19 / In the search for competitive advantage, companies in the service sector begin to look with greater attention to the need for innovation as vital to the survival or even to differentiate within the current business landscape. The ability or competence to innovate has become an essential ingredient of the current dynamics of the business segment. Innovation in services is a real phenomenon and is integrated into the services used in everyday people from using mobile internet to the hiring of distance learning. It is no different in medical diagnostic imaging services in Brazil, where companies seek to improve the perception of customers regarding services through new and innovative processes. In this context, the aim of the study was to investigate ways and alternatives for small and medium companies in the medical services diagnostic imaging industry create value from the perpective of customers, providing unique solutions and innovative services. The literature review included the historical evolution of diagnostic medicine, as well as the development of the medical equipment market. Regarding innovation, the study reviewed general aspects of the subject, and then the phenomenon of innovation in services, in particular, the main modes of innovation proposed by Gallouj and Weinstein (1997). The literature considered allows a better view of the possibilities of implementing innovative processes within organizations, as well as widen the debate about what can be considered innovation in services. Thus, the case study, in that it analyzes the entire process of implementing new services, it seems feasible as research into alternative implementation and understanding of the main obstacles commonly found for making changes in organizational culture / Na busca por vantagem competitiva, as empresas do segmento de serviços começam a olhar com maior atenção para a necessidade da inovação como elemento vital para a sobrevivência ou mesmo para se diferenciar dentro do atual panorama empresarial. A habilidade ou competência para inovar tornou-se um ingrediente fundamental da dinâmica atual dos negócios no segmento. A inovação em serviços é um fenômeno real e está integrada nos serviços utilizados no dia a dia das pessoas, desde a utilização de internet móvel até a contratação de ensino a distância. Não é diferente no segmento de serviços médicos de diagnóstico por imagem no Brasil, onde as empresas buscam melhoria na percepção dos clientes em relação aos serviços prestados através de novos e inovadores processos. Nesse contexto, o objetivo do estudo foi investigar alternativas para pequenas e médias empresas do setor de serviços médicos de diagnóstico por imagem criarem valor a partir da perpectiva dos clientes, oferecendo soluções diferenciadas e serviços inovadores. A revisão da literatura contemplou a evolução histórica da medicina diagnóstica, assim como o desenvolvimento do mercado de equipamentos médicos no país. No tocante a Inovação, o estudo revisou aspectos gerais sobre o tema e, posteriormente o fenômeno da inovação em serviços, em especial, os principais modos de inovação propostos por Gallouj e Weinstein (1997). A literatura considerada permite uma melhor visão das possibilidades de implementação de processos inovadores dentro das organizações, bem como amplia o debate sobre o que pode ser considerado inovação em serviços. Dessa forma, o estudo de caso, na medida em que analisa todo processo de implementação de novos serviços, se mostrou viável quanto a investigação de alternativas de implementação e no entendimento dos principais obstáculos comumente encontrados para realização de mudanças na cultura organizacional

Kundlojalitet är ett begrepp som aldrig tycks försvinna ur marknadsföringens ordlistor, kanske eftersom det för många företag är det ultimata marknadsföringsmålet. Den samtida konkurrensen har tack vare globalisering och digitalisering blivit hårdare än någonsin och lojalitet har aldrig varit mer relevant. Men kundlojalitet som forskningsområde är långt ifrån tydligt och enat i sina åsikter, och i det värsta fallet tycks det vara oklart vad lojalitet ens är eller om det kan skapas eller påverkas. Därmed uppfattas ett behov av att närmare undersöka hur kundlojalitet hanteras av företag inom detaljhandel via onlinekanaler, en bransch som har drabbats av en hårdare konkurrens. En kartläggning av forskning kring ämnet förtydligar att kundlojalitet som koncept har studerats, omdefinierats och kritiserats i en stor utsträckning, men att det nu finns en enad syn på kundlojalitet som ett flerdimensionellt koncept bestående av både beteende och attityd. Men detta synsätt har enligt forskning inte översatts väl till praktiken och många av de strategier som tillämpas såsom lojalitetsprogram kritiseras för att inte främja sann lojalitet. Samtidigt har mycket av den forskning som genomförts fokuserat på konsumentsidan och varför det som görs i relation till lojalitet inte fungerar. Denna masteruppsats fortsätter studien av kundlojalitetens praktiska situation genom att med intervjuer undersöka hur detaljhandelsföretag inom onlinehandel tacklar kundlojalitet för att tydligare kartlägga vad som görs och varför. Åtta intervjuer resulterade i ett flertal teman som beskriver hur kundlojaliteten uppfattas och behandlas i praktiken. Resultaten visar att de definitioner, strategier, metoder och mätetal som används inte stämmer överens med den nyare synen på lojalitet som flerdimensionell. Detta har lett till strategier som varken främjar relationer eller lojalitet och som snarare leder till minskade marginaler och uppmuntrar ett ohållbart konsumentbeteende. Resultaten lyfter även fram fem utmaningar inom det praktiska arbetet med kundlojalitet. Dessa kan härledas till ett övergripande problem som bottnar i att kundlojalitet inte behandlas som en ledningsfråga. / Customer loyalty is a term which is seemingly ubiquitous in the proverbial dictionary of marketing, perhaps because it often is considered the ultimate goal of many marketing activities. Thanks to rising globalisation and digitalisation the current competitive landscape has intensified to a point previously unheard of, which renders loyalty more important than ever before. But, as a field of research customer loyalty is quite split in terms of how loyalty should be defined, and it seems uncertain if loyalty even should be seen as something which can be created. With all this uncertainty in mind there would appear to be a need to more closely examine how Customer Loyalty is actively handled by businesses, using the Swedish e-retail market as a point of reference. A mapping of research on the subject clarifies that customer loyalty as a concept has been studied, redefined and criticized to a great extent, but that there now is a unified view of customer loyalty as a multi-dimensional concept consisting of both behaviour and attitude. However, according to research, this approach has not been translated well into practice, a lot of the strategies applied within loyalty programs has been criticized for not encouraging true loyalty. At the same time, much of the research that has been carried out has focused on the consumer perspective and why the loyalty efforts do not work. This master thesis elaborates on the study of the practicals of customer loyalty by conducting interviews with laypeople to determine how Swedish business within online retail deal with the challenge of maintaining loyalty. A total of eight interviews yielded many themes which thoroughly describe how customer loyalty is viewed, defined, measured and dealt with in practice. Our results show that the definitions, strategies, methods and measurements currently used within the field of loyalty management are not up to snuff when compared with the views of academic research, which define customer loyalty as a multidimensional construct. This has lead to strategies which neither favour loyalty nor relationships but rather result in lessening margins while encouraging unsustainable consumer behaviour. The results also highlight five distinct challenges within the practice of loyalty management. These can largely be contributed to the fact that customer loyalty rarely is given the level of attention on a leadership level that it should warrant.

Forskningsfråga:  Vad kan komma att karaktärisera köpcentrum i framtiden? Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att med avseende på såväl nutid som framtid analysera på vilket sätt arbetet inom köpcentrum är inriktat för att stärka varumärket, klargöra sinnenas betydelse för köpcentrum och tydliggöra hur köpcentrum förhåller sig till konkurrensen från olika typer av handelsplatser. Metod: I denna uppsats har en kvalitativ forskningsmetod antagits. Uppsatsen har en abduktiv ansats. Vi har intervjuat sex personer med anknytning till ämnet. Urvalet var ett såkallat bekvämlighetsurval och intervjuerna semistrukturerade. Resultat, slutsatser: Det första syftet besvarades med hjälp av att presentera hur varumärkesbyggandet ser ut för köpcentrum och andra viktiga aspekter till detta. Tydligt är att butiksmixen är av stor betydelse och att köpcentrets identitet stärks genom denna. I övrigt stärks varumärket med hjälp av så väl upplevelser som sinnesmarknadsföring. Sinnenas betydelse för köpcentrum är stor, framförallt i form av synen och färger. Även hörsel spelar stor roll. Vi fann även att det var viktigt med en varsamhet när det kommer till sinnen, att inte stimulera sinnen alltför extremt. I framtiden finns det stor potential för användandet av sinnemarknadsföring, framförallt för att sticka ut på marknaden. Vem som är konkurrenten till köpcentrum beror mycket på vad som finns i närområdet och vad kunden efterfrågar. Det är viktigt att ta vara på de konkurrensfördelar som finns men även att ta till sig av andras konkurrensfördelar då dessa kan vara viktiga även för köpcentrum. Vår forskningsfråga besvarades främst genom multikoncept, att köpcentrum i framtiden kommer att karaktäriseras av att erbjuda allt från läkare till bilmekaniker, det ska vara effektivt. / Shopping centers are not a new phenomenon; even ancient Rome had their shopping centers. Today, the market for shopping centers is larger than ever before and it is constantly growing. In the last couple of years a new competitor emerged on the market, e-commerce. It has been called a threat to shopping centers but could it also be a possibility? During our studies at Linnaeus University we have learned about sensory marketing, customer experiences and branding as a way of distinguishing oneself at the market. Therefore these subjects have become a focus of the thesis. Furthermore, since the establishing process for shopping centers are between six and seven years we have adopted a futuristic perspective. The purpose of the study is to examine and analyze the branding process, the importance of the senses and the competition of shopping centers. The research has a qualitative approach in order to create greater understanding of the subject. Six interviews were conducted with people with knowledge of the subject. The result of the study is mainly focused upon shopping centers becoming multi-concepts in the future, where everything from doctors to grocery stores and auto mechanics can be found.