Everything about Delight

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: DelightA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Customer delight, engagement, experience, value co-creation, place identity, and revisit intention: a new conceptual frameworkInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Social entrepreneurship research: A source of explanation, prediction, and delightCited 2,870 times
5. Go sideways: Utopia (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: QueenA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Social entrepreneurship research: A source of explanation, prediction, and delight

  Johanna Mair, Ignasi Martí · 2006 · Journal of World Business · 2,870 citations

• Delight by Design: The Role of Hedonic versus Utilitarian Benefits

  Ravindra Chitturi, Rajagopal Raghunathan, Vijay Mahajan · 2008 · Journal of Marketing · 1,634 citations

• Customer delight: Foundations, findings, and managerial insight

  R Oliver · 1997 · Journal of Retailing · 1,187 citations

• Should We Delight the Customer?

  R. T. Rust, R. L. Oliver · 2000 · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · 499 citations

• The connubial crucible: Newlywed years as predictors of marital delight, distress, and divorce.

  Ted L. Huston, John P. Caughlin, Renate M. Houts · 2001 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 341 citations

• Move me, astonish me… delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top-down and bottom-up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates

  Matthew Pelowski, Patrick S. Markey, Michael Forster · 2017 · Physics of Life Reviews · 334 citations

• Customer delight in a retail context: investigating delightful and terrible shopping experiences

  Mark J. Arnold, Kristy E. Reynolds, Nicole Ponder · 2005 · Journal of Business Research · 305 citations

• The Turkish Delight: A Pliable Graft for Rhinoplasty

  ??. Onur Erol · 2000 · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery · 296 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Customer delight, engagement, experience, value co-creation, place identity, and revisit intention: a new conceptual framework

  Muhammad Haroon Shoukat, Haywantee Ramkissoon · 2022 · Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management · 98 citations

• What leads to an immersive night tourism experience? The relevance of multi-sensory stimuli, emotional involvement, and delight

  Danqin Fang, Zhenzhong Zhao, Chengyu Xiong · 2024 · Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research · 53 citations

• Effects of dapagliflozin and dapagliflozin-saxagliptin on erythropoiesis, iron and inflammation markers in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease: data from the DELIGHT trial

  Akihiko Koshino, Brendon L. Neuen, Niels Jongs · 2023 · Cardiovascular Diabetology · 35 citations

• Nightmare or delight: Taxonomic circumscription meets reticulate evolution in the phylogenomic era

  Ze-Tao Jin, Richard G.J. Hodel, Dai-Kun Ma · 2023 · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 34 citations

• Cryogenic X-ray crystallographic studies of biomacromolecules at Turkish Light Source "<i>Turkish DeLight</i>"

  NECATİ ATALAY, ENVER KAMİL AKCAN, MEHMET GÜL · 2023 · Turkish Journal of Biology · 27 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC. S. Lewis · 1950
• The Chronicles of NarniaC. S. Lewis · 1970
• Tales of Narnia (The Magician's Nephew / The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe / The Horse and His Boy)C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes · 1988
• LeapTerry Tempest Williams · 2000
• Fatal TideLis W. Wiehl, Pete Nelson · 2013
• Beauty and the feastSara Hoagland Hunter · 1996
• The joy of not cookingDelights of the Garden (Restaurant) · 1994
• 📕The land of unlikenessReindert Leonard Falkenburg · 2011

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