BACKGROUND Healthcare providers are competitive, owing to heightened customers' awareness and expectations of health care services. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between customer value creation and loyalty with mediator trust and customer satisfaction. METHODS This is a cross sectional survey study. Participants were 196 patients referred to private hospi...

The air cargo terminals (ACTs) recently focus on developing relationship with customers to meet their requirements and enhance loyalty in the competitive environments in Taiwan. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of service quality, innovation capability and corporate image on customer’s satisfaction and loyalty of ACTs. After reviewing the literatures, the structural equation ...

While customer satisfaction and loyalty regarding most physical goods and services have been well explored in academic literature, there exists little research on these factors with respect to mobile telecommunications services. Nevertheless, standardized satisfaction measures are suggested to be useful for various telecom-industry stakeholders. However, such a global standard measure of satisf...

A Developing Model of Relationship Among Service Quality, Consumer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Word of Mouth in Islamic Banking. This research aims to develop a measurement tool of service quality in Islamic banking sector, and examine its relationship among satisfaction, word of mouth (WOM), and consumer loyalty. A convenience sampling of 235 respondents collected from seven locations in the Lh...

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...

today, organizations continuously try to find the ways to gain loyal customers because of their advantages. customer to customer interactions has attracted more attention among marketers in which customer-to-customer interactions has been known as one of the most important methods of creating loyal customers. the present paper seeks to propose a service model developed in traveling and tourism ...

SATISFACTION AS ANTECEDENTS ABSTRACT Purpose: This paper studies, from the perspective of relationship marketing, the loyalty behavior of industrial customers in the context of a cluster. Loyalty is a key variable for studying long term relationships between firms. Research implications: Recent advances in consumer and services marketing consider that perceived value and satisfaction are centra...

customers extend robust trust to a business when they believe the business puts their interests first. good experience of banking services and recommendations of other customers can increase trust. loyalty and word of mouth (wom) is accepted as key factors successes of marketing. this paper seeks to discover the affecting factors on positive word of mouth and loyalty based on trust enhancement ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the attitudinal brand loyalty variables (i.e., cognitive, affective, and conative components), team identification, and customer satisfaction by developing a structural equation model, based on Oliver's (1997) attitudinal brand loyalty model. The results of this study confirmed the study of brand loyalty stages by Oliver (1997)...

Customer loyalty is a component with considerable focus on by relationship-oriented marketing. Firm brand is one of the factors that play significant role in creating brand loyalty. Therefore in this research, we studied brand effect on customer loyalty. Also in this research, we examined customer satisfaction, loyalty, perceived quality and brand equity (brand value) in relation to customer lo...