Despite significant recent research attention to service failures and service recovery, few efforts investigate preemptive strategies as a means to avoid service failures. Drawing on equity theory, we introduce the concept of conflict handling, which refers to a service firm’s capability to anticipate and equitably resolve conflicts in service interactions. In a survey of two service contexts i...

Customer Retention is a major aspect of the growth of any business. It is always good to retain those customers who are more loyal or can be converted to be loyal. In this paper, a fuzzy decision tree based approach is proposed in combination with Z-shaped curved membership function to find the customer loyalty and has been compared with the approach of fuzzy decision tree with Gaussian members...

The proposed model is theoretically grounded in the multi-attribute attitude literature. It is proposed that the antecedents of customer loyalty are be partitioned into three categories. First, supply-side (firm-controllable) customer loyalty antecedents are those satisfaction drivers that comprise total customer experience (TCE). Eight distinct TCE dimensions are identified through preliminary...

consumer psychology is one of the most popular trends of psychology in recent years which more than anything is related to understanding and analysis of consumer behavior. the most important fields of the science include issues such as expectations, preferences and customer loyalty. and scientists use statistical and quantitative tools to analyze customer behavior. this study in terms of object...

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to a growing body of service recovery knowledge by examining the relationship between service recovery, consumer satisfaction and loyalty in a commercial banking environment. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual framework encompassing th\e concepts of service recovery, communication, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in the commercial bank ...

This paper develops a theoretical framework to examine the relationship between e-tail quality dimensions, customer satisfaction and loyalty. Data from a survey of 415 online consumers were used to test the research model. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were conducted to demonstrate the reliability and validity of the measurement model, and the Structur...

Taking Lushan Hot Springs Recreational Area as an example, this research explores the relationship between hot springs hotels’ service quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and lifestyle. Research outcomes indicate that hot springs hotel operators need to enhance customer satisfaction in order to improve customer loyalty directly or enhance service quality in order to improve custome...

This study investigates the relationship between service quality of electronic supermarkets and customer loyalty by conducting questionnaire survey on 237 buyers in Tran Anh electronic supermarkets in Hanoi, Vietnam. This questionnaire was constructed with 28 retail service quality items covering 5 service quality dimensions namely Physical Aspects, Reliability, Personal Interaction, Problem So...

Banks are in the process of moving into a more competitive financial atmosphere with a wide variety of financial products and services. From the practical perspective, the prediction of customer loyalty will provide a better understanding of Islamic banking that relates to customer loyalty and offer a platform that helps the bank management to improve the customer loyalty. Therefore, the primar...

The purpose of this study is to provide a casual model to explain the effect of relationship quality on customer loyalty via mediating effect which night provided by customer satisfaction. The proposed casual model of three variables is developed. Structure equation modelling is conducted to explore customer group homogeneously and examine the mediating effect. The results indicate that relatio...