Service quality is a factor for measuring customer satisfaction in hotel industry. Therefore, in order to achieve competitive advantage and maintain customers, improving service quality has become an important tool in hotel industry to achieve customer satisfaction which is lead to customer loyalty. Because companies are developing close relationships with suppliers and customers. Since then th...

This chapter introduces the framework and causal model of customer value, customer satisfaction, brand loyalty, and customer relationship management performance in terms of the innovative manufacturing and marketing solutions. It argues that dimensions of customer value, customer satisfaction, and brand loyalty have mediated positive effect on customer relationship management performance. Furth...

Keyword: Customer gratitude Relationship marketing Retailing Loyalty programs Customer gratitude represents the emotional core of reciprocity and plays a key force in developing and maintaining successful seller–buyer relational exchanges. Based upon personal interviews with 239 members of loyalty card programs of a department chain store, this study shows that alternative relationship marketin...

Customers could switch service provider easily because of lower searching cost and identical service in online environment. Most marketing research for customer loyalty emphasizes the effect of satisfaction and switching barrier, derived from investment model. However, how satisfaction and switching barrier influence customer loyalty has been less conclusive. The possible reason is neglect of c...

in today's competitive environment, branding is considered as a mechanism to help businesses in order to achieve competitive advantages. due to perceived service quality, business image and customer trust, branding, as an important concept in the sports marketing, is created for organizations. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived service quality and c...

In this paper, we present a conceptual framework that helps to better understand and assess the impacts of information technology on customer loyalty in retail banking. To do so, we define the concept of customer loyalty and identify its antecedents. A conceptual framework describing the impacts of information technology on loyalty is developed based on the literature in marketing, social psych...