The increase in the numbers of both public and private higher learning institutions (HLI) in Malaysia has resulted in the industry becoming relatively very competitive. The situation calls for HLIs to focus on establishing a strong corporate image and providing student satisfaction to secure their loyalty. Delivering quality services would lead to student satisfaction and loyalty. This study re...

Very little is known empirically about customer loyalty to frequently-bought goods over the long term (e.g. over five years or more, or over hundreds of purchases). In this paper we first explore patterns of long-run loyalty in two very different markets; a consumer market – laundry detergents, and a more frequently-used quasi-industrial market – the prescribing of antihypertensive drugs. Secon...

Monitoring and managing customers' satisfaction are key features to benefit from today's competitive environment. In higher education context, only a few studies are available on satisfaction and loyalty of the main customers who are the students, which signifies the need to investigate the field more thoroughly. The aim of this research is to measure the strength of determinants of students' s...

The worldwide annual expenditures for cosmetics is estimated at U.S. $18 billion, and many players in the field are competing aggressively to capture more and more markets. The purpose of this article is to investigate the influence of brand loyalty on cosmetics buying behavior of female consumers in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The seven factors of brand loyalty are brand name, product...

This study integrates shopping value dimensions and consumers’ commitment to a theoretical model to understand consumer loyalty to e-shopping. E-commerce is established as an efficient sales platform for travel and hospitality vendors. However, extant literature found that it is difficult to attract new customers and retain existing customers in e-commerce. This paper investigates the anteceden...

Compared to offline shopping, the online shopping experience may be viewed as lacking human warmth and sociability as it is more impersonal, anonymous, automated and generally devoid of face-toface interactions. Thus, understanding how to create customer loyalty in online environments (e-Loyalty) is a complex process. In this paper a model for e-Loyalty is proposed and used to examine how varie...

This article explores the interrelationships between three categories of service quality in healthcare delivery organizations: patient, employee, and physician satisfaction. Using the largest and most representative national databases available, the study compares the evaluations of hospital care by more than 2 million patients, 150,000 employees, and 40,000 physicians. The results confirm the ...

It is a marketplace reality that marketing managers sometimes inflict switching costs on their customers, to inhibit them from defecting to new suppliers. In a competitive setting, such as the Internet market, where competition may be only one click away, has the potential of switching costs as an exit barrier and a binding ingredient of customer loyalty become altered? To address that issue, t...

The present paper examines the effectiveness of financial overcompensation as a means to enhance customer loyalty after a product failure. Overcompensation implies that customers are entitled to a refund that is larger than the purchase price. It is, however, still unclear whether large overcompensations entail saturation effects, or alternatively, result in an actual drop in customer loyalty. ...

Website customer loyalty is believed to be very important to the success of E-Commerce firms. Based on document review, this study constructs a customer loyalty effect model which chooses organization, navigation, labeling and searching system as dependent variables as well as attitude and behavior loyalty as variables. The sample of the study was drawn from 250 students who have online shoppin...