Background: As consumer behavior evolves, the influence of ethical considerations on purchasing decisions becomes more significant, especially in the face of international conflicts. This thesis delves into the relationship between consumer activism and corporate ethical practices within the food industry, explaining how boycotts are used as strategic tools for advocating change. It explores the multifaceted role of boycotts in shaping corporate policies, driven by consumers' unwillingness to support companies whose practices conflict with their ethical standards. The study seeks to understand the broader implications of consumer choices in the context of ongoing geopolitical conflicts, highlighting how these choices impact corporate behavior and contribute to broader social movements.   Purpose: The purpose of this study is to delve into the specific mechanisms through which individual perceptions and beliefs about geopolitical conflicts influence consumer decisions to engage in boycotts within the food industry. It focuses on understanding the role of personal values, social media, identity, and social influence in shaping these decisions in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict.   Method: This study employed a qualitative methodology to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence consumer boycotting behaviors. We conducted semi-structured interviews with Generation Z consumers in Jönköping, Sweden, from which we gained valuable insights into their perspectives and experiences. The data collected were analyzed using thematic analysis to explore the factors impacting consumer behavior toward boycotting.   Conclusion: The results show and further supports that consumer decisions to participate in conflict-oriented boycotts are shaped by social media, social influence, customer values and identity. Other factors were also discovered to be drivers to this behavior in the context of Israel/Palestine conflict. Boycotting behavior is found to be a complex interaction of emotional responses, identity, ethical considerations, and others which is heavily influenced by collective social dynamics. Lastly, the findings indicate that boycotting within the food industry is not just a temporary response to conflicts but may evolve into brand avoidance.

Questo studio esamina come un'esperienza di marca possa essere definita tale. La rilevanza del tema inerisce a due dimensioni. Da un lato, l’attuale letteratura di marketing è ricca di research-call che spingono i ricercatori ad una miglior comprensione dell’universo di marca soprattutto attraverso l’impiego di nuove prospettive. Dall’altro lato, il mercato evidenzia un fenomeno complesso. A condizione di esperienze di marca più frequenti, e di individui che dimostrano una crescente volontà di essere ingaggiati dalle marche, aumenta la distanza tra individuo e marca. Questo studio intende fornire un framework teorico per meglio comprendere il fenomeno della brand exerience; vuole quindi indagare il meccanismo con cui brand ed esperienza sono in grado di dialogare all’interno di un setting che vede l’individuo protagonista. Il lavoro combina l’analisi della teoria esistente, con un’indagine condotta sul campo avente ad oggetto il Thununiversum. Lo studio esplora i principali brand meanings che promuovono il consumo esperienziale di marca. Appoggiandosi agli stream di ricerca inerenti all’esperienza, raffigura un nuovo setting esperienziale entro cui l’esperienza si genera. I findings del lavoro suggeriscono poi che l’esperienza vissuta favorisce un processo di riqualificazione del senso di marca. Quindi lo studio si chiude con una definizione del costrutto di brand experience. / This study examines how a brand experience can really be defined as such. There are several calls in the marketing literature for research to develop a greater understanding of brands (Ballantyne and Aitken, 2007; Brodie et al., 2006; Jevons, 2007) especially using new perspectives. At the same time, on the market side, consumers want increasingly to be engaged by brands and companies project a growing amount of brand experience. However, there’s a deep mismatching between brands and people. This article wants to make advances in applying experience theory to brand dimension by clarifying the boundaries and specifying the relational mechanisms that occurs between the two main constructs: brand and experience. Field research in Thununiversum context (Eisenhardt&Graebner, 2007) is combined with analysis of existing theory to develop the findings of this study (Burawoy, 1991). This qualitative study explores the main brand meanings that precede then promote the experiential consumption. Then, based on the experience literature, a typology is derived that classifies the core dimensions within a brand experience setting. The findings suggest that the experience provided by a brand contributes to a process of individual meanings’ requalification. The emerging model try, finally, to design a new concept of brand experience.

採購作業在企業營運過程中扮演著重要的環節，若企業可取得有利原物料成本，將可有效提升企業競爭力。企業為確保採購作業優勢，通常希望找尋更多供應廠商，以期從中取得市場最低價格之原物料。 在1990年代網際網路(Internet)與全球資訊網( World Wide Web)的出現後，買賣雙方的交易行為開始透過電子商務(Electronic Commerce)進行交易，以降低採購作業溝通處理。企業為擴大詢價來源，電子商務更發展為多家買方(採購商)對多家賣方(供應商)的B2B電子交易市集(E-Marketplace)。B2B電子交易市集發展至今，台灣企業使用B2B電子交易市集的情況始終不普及。台灣企業在面對全球市場的競爭，台灣企業是否可更有效的運用B2B電子交易市集來進行採購作業，該如何提升B2B電子交易市集的價值，協助台灣企業營造良善的採購環境及提升競爭力，為本論文的研究動機。 在探討過去研究文獻、訪談電子製造業及醫療產業廠商及針對B2B電子交易市集經營廠商平台進行比較後發現：不論買方(採購商)或賣方(供應商)都認為B2B電子交易市集應提供透明、方便及快速有效的交易環境，系統功能應具電子型錄、詢報價、訂購、帳款及電子發票等功能，會員數愈多愈好並應確保會員資質、提供24小客服服務與顧問諮詢服務、重視交易可信任度、操作介面應具親和性、重視系統穩定性、系統安全性、資料正確性及合理計費標準，以期透過B2B電子交易市集，可降低買賣的交易成本與增加雙方的獲利能力。 為提升買賣方對B2B電子交易市集價值的認同感，建議本論文研究個案F平台可朝透過雲端、開放資料(Open data)、大數據(Big Data)的運用並朝下列幾點發展，以協助企業提升競爭力：(1)營造專業採購交易平台。(2)增加主動交易媒合功能。(3)運用交易數據資料，創造新主動提醒訂購功能、增加會員資質分級管理制度、提供交易指標參考數據等構面發展。 最後，在資訊科技技術不斷的推陳出新，各技術運用也日漸普及。因此，建議未來針對B2B電子交易市集研究方向，可朝如何運用各項資訊科技(如物聯網Internet of things)，整合買賣雙方及往來關係者資源(如政府、銀行、物流業者等資訊)並朝向智慧化發展，以提供買賣雙方更透明、更便利、更快速交易環境。 / Procurement practices play an important part in the process of business operations. If companies can achieve lower material costs, this will effectively enhance their competitiveness. To ensure the advantages of procurement, it is often desirable for companies to find more suppliers in order to obtain the lowest prices from them. In the 1990s with the emergence of Internet and World Wide Web (WWW), transactions between buyers and sellers started trading through electronic commerce to reduce the procurement communication and negotiation process. In order for companies to expand their sources of the market prices, e-commerce has been developed into a B2B E-marketplace with multiple buyers and sellers. In Taiwan companies, the use of the B2B E-marketplace services, as they have been developed so far, is not always popular. Therefore, the motivation for this study is to provide Taiwan companies with a more efficient method to use B2B E-marketplace services when undertaking procurement activities, and enhance the value of the B2B E-marketplace to help Taiwan companies create a better procurement environment and improve competitiveness when they face global competition. After reviewing the previous studies in literature and interviewing the electronic manufacturing industry, the medical industry, and the B2B E-marketplace industry, I find that buyers and sellers think that the B2B E-marketplace should provide a more transparent, more convenient, more efficient, and fast trading environment, have a function with the electronic catalog, quotation and ordering system, accounts and electronic invoices, etc., have a function to attract more members and ensure their records, offer a 24-hour customer and consultant service, create a user-friendly interface, and value the trustworthiness of the transaction, the system stability and security, the data accuracy, and the reasonable fee standard in order to reduce transaction costs and increase profitability for both parties. In order to enhance the value of identity of the buyers and sellers of the B2B E-marketplace, it is recommended that the case F platform of the study be conducted through the use of the cloud, open data, big data, and following the following points to help companies enhance their competitiveness: (1) to create a professional procurement trading platform (2) to increase the active trading and the matchmaking probability (3) to use the transaction data to create a new order function with an active reminding system, increase a management function with a membership grading system, and provide transaction indexes and reference data. Finally, we know that information technologies continue to innovate and the use of any new technologies has also become increasingly popular. Therefore, for the future research in the B2B E-marketplace, it is recommended that we can use various information technologies such as the “Internet of Things”, to reassemble buyers, sellers, and other partners such as government, banking, and logistics industry involved in the transactions, and develop the wisdom to provide buyers and sellers with a more transparent, more convenient, and fast trading environment.

半導體光電元件普及於各式各樣的電子設備與產品中，可說是支持現代工業社會迅速發展的基礎，因此半導體產業一直是相當引人注目之行業。一般而言，企業要尋求及建立相對優勢，以保有相對之競爭優勢，其可茲運用之策略眾多，價格差異化、強化本身與顧客之關係、發展品牌、提升顧客滿意度，均是可使用之方式。對半導體設備商來說，除了價格、品牌策略外，本研究認為顧客關係管理對於半導體設備商來說，是相當重要的一項議題，半導體光電設備供應商的供應鏈必須具有高回應性才能滿足客戶需要。透過個案研究，本研究系探討半導體光電設備商顧客關係管理之面向與策略，以及顧客關係管理對半導體光電設備商之影響。研究發現，透過顧客關係管理，半導體光電設備商得以在提升顧客價值、客製化顧客需求、降低顧客成本、模組化顧客溝通模式的目標下，利用整合顧客知識、建置顧客管理平台、建立顧客認同、以及公司高階管理者涉入的策略下，得以降低公司在取得新顧客時所需的成本，同時提高既有顧客忠誠度、提升產品競爭力、並提高銷售績效。 / Semiconductor industry is still a promising business in high technology, and the companies in this field have to seek and construct their strength and superiorities to retain the competitiveness. In the light of the distinct tactics of business, customer relationship management is quite an important issue for semiconductor equipment manufacturers besides price and brand image strategies. For the supply chains of semiconductor equipment manufacturers, only the high responsiveness of customer can bring the high satisfactions of customer. The purpose of study hence is to discuss the dimensions and the tactics of customer relationship management of semiconductor equipment manufacturers, and the effect of customer relationship management to the development of semiconductor equipment manufacturers through case study. As the results, semiconductor equipment manufacturers can improve their product competitiveness, customer loyalty, and the cost of getting new possible customers via the tactics of customer knowledge integration, the customer identities, customer management platform, and the involvement of high level manager under the multiple feasible targets.