For many companies, a small but very loyal part oftheir overall consumer base is responsible for the majority oftheir profits, so the concept of brand loyalty is of considerableimportance. The preponderance of research on this subject hasfocused on identifying the role of marketer-controlled factorsin fostering brand loyalty. However, it is also important toconsider the ...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effects of consumers’ perceptions concerning the ethics of online retailers on web site satisfaction and loyalty. Design/methodology/approach – An online survey instrument was administered to a sample of 220 students who were enrolled in various business undergraduate classes at a mid size university located in the southwestern USA. Participants complete...

The objective of this paper is to identify the impact of service quality on customer relationship management and customer loyalty in the Indian telecom sector. Service quality has been considered as independent variable whereas customer relationship management and customer loyalty were considered as dependent variable. Five antecedents of service quality have been considered in this study viz. ...

the current paper seeks to study the effects of relationship quality on customer’s behavioral responses at different stages of the relationship life cycle in iran's banking industry. in this respect agriculture bank of iran was selected as the target population of the suggested theoretical model of this experiment and 417customers of the bank have participated as the statistical samples to...

Today service providers need to mobilize all the internal energies in order to face the increasing competition and a changing market environment. Knowing the customer and the ability to provide flexible services has become crucial to building customer loyalty. With regard to technology-intensive services, Parasuraman [57] proposed that customer technology readiness (TR) has an impact on the per...

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...

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...

The purpose of this research is to investigate how the respondents are influenced by factors of brand loyalty towards sportswear brands. Previous research adopted seven factors to test in the Malaysian environment. The seven factors of brand loyalty are brand name, product quality, price, style, promotion, service quality and store environment. Brand name has shown strong correlation with brand...

regarding the importance of the customer in today'scompetitive world, and considering the previous researches whichindicated the cost of attracting new customers is far more than the costof maintaining customer loyalty, studying the methods of obtainingand maintaining customer loyalty in various businesses has received ahigh priority. the purpose of this study is to determine thecomponents...

While the importance of customer loyalty has been recognized in marketing literature for at least three decades, the development and empirical validation of a customer loyalty model in a mobile commerce (m-commerce) context had not been addressed. The purpose of our study was to develop and validate such a customer loyalty model. Based on IS and marketing literature, a comprehensive set of cons...