As Chinese game market growing mature, cultivating loyal game users has become the new goals for game companies. Based on the theory of game users experience, this paper constructs the structural model of customer with the variables of perceived value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty and studies the relationship between the game users’ hedonic/utilitarian value and customer satisfact...

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...

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Panel cointegration analysis is used to examine the links between customer satisfaction and its antecedents as well as satisfaction and consumer voice and loyalty for four firms in the limited service restaurant sector. The results suggest satisfaction and perceived value continually move to maintain a stable balance between perceived quality, expectations, perceived value, and satisfaction. Lo...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Customer–brand identification Company identity Brand identity Social identity Brand loyalty This paper proposes a social identity perspective of customer–brand relationship and integrates brand identity and identification with value, trust and satisfaction in predicting brand loyalty. Two studies' empirical results support this path to brand loyalty framework. Th...

in the recent decade, given the importance of customer in online environment, creating loyalty has been proposed as an essential challenge for electronic stores. the present study focuses on the role of trust in order to facilitate the process of making e-customers loyal. to this end, a model was proposed that especially focuses on individual factors ( perceived usefulness, perceived ease of us...