In an e-commerce environment, personalization has taken on an important role in improving service levels, and fostering customer loyalty. In addition, the recommendation systems techniques that support many personalization systems are capable of customizing the recommendation of products and the display of advertisements to the individual level. This chapter provides a review of the major recom...

As the competition within the gaming industry continues to grow exponentially, these organizations are using players club programs as a key component of their marketing programs. This study investigates the relationship between casino players club programs and its members. Through the use of data collected from a mail survey of 3000 players club members, a detailed analysis was undertaken to ex...

This study extends the existing satisfaction–trust–loyalty paradigm to investigate how customers’ affectionate ties with firms (customer–firm affection)—in particular, the components of intimacy and passion—affect customer loyalty in services. In a bilevel model, the authors consider customer–staff and customer–firm interactions in parallel. Through a netnography study and survey research in tw...

The purpose of this study was to test how potential customers’ perceptions of a hotel’s corporate social responsibility activities, service quality, and transparency affect relationship quality constructs such as trust, satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Our research design consisted of utilizing a convenience survey of 487American potential hotel customers. We then followed a two-step approac...

Private karaoke rooms (known as “KTV” or karaoke television) are a special type of leisure space in Taiwan. The focus of this study is to show the relationship between service quality, brand image, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in the KTV industry. This study examines two chain KTV operations in Taiwan, with two locations for each chain; the study comprises a total of 255 valid qu...

Medical tourism organizations have increasingly recognized that loyalty makes a medical clinic a marketing success. To increase understanding of the importance of medical clinics, this study examined the roles of servicescapes, emotions, and satisfaction in the development of customer loyalty toward medical clinics and destination. Data were collected among international medical tourists visiti...

Innovation is being view from four areas of innovation, product, service, technology, and marketing. Whereas customer loyalty is composed of customer expectation, perceived quality, perceived value, corporate image, customer satisfaction, customer trust/confidence, customer commitment, customer complaint, and customer loyalty. This study aimed to investigate the influence of innovation factors ...

A company CSR commitment, as stated in its Social Report is, actually, perceived by its stakeholders?And in what measure? Moreover, are stakeholders satisfied with the company CSR efforts? Indeed, business returns from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices, such as company reputation and customer loyalty, depend heavily on how stakeholders perceive the company social conduct. In this ...

One of the main challenges in E-commerce is how to calculate the maximum acceptable time for response to the customer from the business firms. This case has a direct impact on many business concepts such as customer loyalty, satisfaction, and trust. In this paper, a mathematical model is presented to calculate the maximum acceptable time. In this regard, based on a set of functions, while inves...

Based on 2,178 business units in 10 organizations, this study used meta-analysis to examine the causal direction of the relationship between employee engagement and business-unit outcomes of employee retention, customer loyalty, and financials. Competing models were tested using longitudinal path analysis. Results indicate a stronger relationship from employee engagement to business outcomes th...