Customer Engagement and Loyalty: A Comparative Study Between Service Contexts

The article discusses the e ect of context on customer engagement and presents propensity to engage as an attitudinal antecedent of loyalty behaviors. We argue that customers may hold di erent propensity to engage depending on the speci!c service context, which in turnwill in"uencemore or less favorable behaviors. Data were collected through a convenience sample of 516 consumers in two settings, high and low contact services. Results revealed that propensity to engage and loyalty behaviors vary signi!cantly between the contexts studied.We also conclude that the majority of loyalty behaviors are correlated, in both contexts, with customers’propensity to engage.