Application service providers are trying their best to enhance existing customers’ loyalty because of the prosperous and competitive market. Customers switch suppliers based on economic evaluation. Other suppliers easily imitate the competitive edge derived from price and cost factors. From social exchange theory and relationship management, psychological factors are important for industrial cu...

Do store brands help differentiate a store to attract store loyal consumers? Or do they attract price sensitive cherry pickers who are not store loyal? To answer these questions empirically, the authors construct appropriate metrics of store brand loyalty and store loyalty, that do not impose mathematical relationships between the two variables—a problem with recent works in this area. Using da...

This research looks into the influence of the service quality and price on customer’s satisfaction and loyalty of commercial airline service industry. The objective of this research is to test and analyse the effect of service quality and price toward customer’s satisfaction and loyalty. This research used primary data through a survey of 310 respondents. The respondents were passengers, who ha...

Loyalty is an essential component of multi-community engagement. When users have the choice to engage with a variety of different communities, they often become loyal to just one, focusing on that community at the expense of others. However, it is unclear how loyalty is manifested in user behavior, or whether certain community characteristics encourage loyalty. In this paper we operationalize l...

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...

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...

In this study some differences in brand value in online channels are examined and compared with physical channels. The arguments presented lead to two hypotheses about brand loyalty in these environments. The first is that brand loyalty will be greater in online channels and the other that this difference is greater in product categories in which sensory factors predominate (those perceived by ...

The purpose of this study is to test s structural equation model which aims to explore the extent to which customer lifetime value (CLV) is impacted by customer perceptions of value, satisfaction, and loyalty. A series of examinations revealed that (1) customer value (CV) impacts customer satisfaction and loyalty directly and positively; (2) customer satisfaction is directly and positively rela...

The evolution of information technologies has produced changes in learning, creating ubiquitous learning. This paper presents a case study on institutional repository service quality and users’ loyalty to College Libraries in Taiwan. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. (1) Institutional repository service quality has a direct positive prediction on users’ loyalty. ...

In differentiated product markets where consumer preferences are characterized by brand loyalty, an important role for advertising may be to overcome brand loyalty by encouraging consumers to switch to less familiar brands. Using a scanner panel dataset of breakfast-cereal purchases, I find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that advertising counteracts the tendencies of brand loyalty towa...