Developing the e-services has directed organizations to aspire to achieve more market share in the competitive market. Consequently, they must present their services in such a system that customers return to the website and apply the e-services of that organization. This matter has become a serious challenge in this field and has generated a notion such as e-loyalty that various factors affect ...

Customer acquisition and retention are two phases of an e-commerce life cycle. Switching costs and perceived risks affect both, but in different ways. This study examines these two well known, often contradicting variables in an integrated frame work and asks: Can perceived risks complement switching costs to give rises to new customer loyalty strategies for e-commerce enterprises? That is, do ...

Research on online auctions has attracted much attention from both practitioners and academicians. This paper aims to apply stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) paradigm to construct the model of eloyalty of online auction websites. Technology effectiveness, network effect, and product diversity are determinants proposed to influence customers’ brand perceptions, which in turn, affect e-loyalty. ...

Due to the progress of website applications, many online services without commercial transactions have been widely implemented recently. The potential of and the indirect business opportunities from those applications have made measuring website performance an important issue. In electronic commerce, the e-loyalty development process is based on both e-satisfaction and e-trust toward the net-en...

E-services have been recognized for their contribution to strengthening customer relationships and fostering customer loyalty. While prior research has focused on the role of e-services in business-to-consumer interactions, this chapter studies e-services in the business-to-business domain. More specifically, it explores how the preferences for e-services and electronic channels change over tim...

The issue of assessing customer perceptions of e-service quality performance and its impact on eloyalty, has emerged as an area of strategic importance for e-marketers and Website managers. This paper proposes a conceptual framework of the key determinants a manager must consider to develop e-loyalty in business-to-consumer e-commerce. It is argued that the quality of a Website can contribute t...

This paper is the second of the series of studies entitled ‘‘Innovativeness and Involvement as Determinants of Website Loyalty’’, which was designed to test Foxall’s [(1995). Cognitive styles of consumer initiators. Technovation 15(5), 269–288] style/involvement model in the context of Internet buyer behaviours. In this paper, a consumer Website loyalty model was proposed to describe how consum...

The current paper studies the influence of various factors on customer loyalty. The main hypothesis of the study insists that the list of most important factors affecting loyalty is dependant on the level of loyalty of costumers. LOGIT method was used for testing the hypotheses on the sample of survey data about 1000 private customers of the biggest telecommunication company in Estonia. The res...

The fierce competition in E-commerce has forced the companies to focus on providing customer satisfaction and gain customer loyalty. Thus, measuring the parameters which drive customer satisfaction is very important for the long-term growth of the businesses. This research work makes an attempt to identify the factors which influence the loyalty and satisfaction of customers in organized E-comm...

the current study aims to identify the effective factors and barriers to loyalty in electronic banking services in the private banks customers. for this purpose, a survey was done with a questionnaire sampling from 420 customers of private banks in golestan province, who have used electronic banking services in 2011. the results indicated that seven factors including preference, customer satisf...