Application service providers are trying their best to enhance existing customers’ loyalty because of the prosperous and competitive market. Customers switch suppliers based on economic evaluation. Other suppliers easily imitate the competitive edge derived from price and cost factors. From social exchange theory and relationship management, psychological factors are important for industrial cu...

This study investigates the effect of co-production on customer loyalty (attitudinal and behavioral separately) and factors which may boost co-production in an Iranian bank. To investigate co-production in banking services, the proposed model of Auh et al. (2007) was applied. Given the fact that many banks try to get the status of their main customers, co-production was examined due to its pote...

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...

Customer loyalty is one of the important approaches for retailers to improve competitive edge. Despite the importance of customer loyalty, some of the retail stores have lack on service quality, product quality, price strategy as well as customer satisfaction whereas needs a comprehensive work to explain how customers develop loyalty to a particular store. This study aims to evaluate the retail...

The competition among shopping malls is getting increasingly more intense.In order to enhance corporate competitiveness and profitability, how toretain key loyal customers has become an important issue for the managers ofshopping malls. Customer loyalty programs are a universal practice. Thisstudy proposes an analytical model for developing the strategic management...

LAPLAND UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES-School of Business and Culture Degree programme: Business Management Writer: Wan Tong Thesis title: Analyzing the relationship between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty Case: Ritz-Carlton Guangzhou Pages (of which appendices): 51 (8) Date: 10 February, 2015 Thesis instructor: Marita Wahlroos This research aims to analyze the relationship between c...

This study proposed a conceptual model to examine how customers’ perceptions of physical environment influence disconfirmation, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty for first-time and repeat customers in upscale restaurants. Using a structural equation modeling analysis, this study showed that facility aesthetics, lighting, layout, and social factors had significant effects on disconfirm...