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Economics Research International
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 534209, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/534209
Research Article

Consumer Spending and Customer Satisfaction: Untying the Knot

Peter Sephton

School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada

Received 1 August 2011; Accepted 23 October 2011

Academic Editor: Donald Lien

Copyright © 2012 Peter Sephton. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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