The benefits of customer relationship strategies are well known and somewhat established nowadays. Customer loyalty emerges as the crucial glue in developing a relational approach. However, relational bonds, which relate to customer loyalty, have not yet been fully explored. Also, there is little research that takes into account the effect of service types on customer relationships and bonding....

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...

This study proposed a conceptual model to examine how customers’ perceptions of physical environment influence disconfirmation, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty for first-time and repeat customers in upscale restaurants. Using a structural equation modeling analysis, this study showed that facility aesthetics, lighting, layout, and social factors had significant effects on disconfirm...

competition intensity in market place and perceived importance of customer retention for organizations has inclined them to develop and maintain enduring relation with customers. according to marketing scholars, relationship marketing is the best strategy for doing so. in this article the contribution of relationship marketing underpinnings namely, commitment, trust, communication, and conflict...

Mobile environments are becoming one of the major interests for the marketing researchers and discovering a way to perform effective marketing activities in such environments is a priority task for many business organizations as we are entering an "always-on" society where people can interact "anytime" and "anywhere". Interest in the concept of "interactivity" has emerged in online environments...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Customer–brand identification Company identity Brand identity Social identity Brand loyalty This paper proposes a social identity perspective of customer–brand relationship and integrates brand identity and identification with value, trust and satisfaction in predicting brand loyalty. Two studies' empirical results support this path to brand loyalty framework. Th...

This study aimed to investigate the causal relationships between aspects of customer capital to improve customer relationship management and increase customer’s loyalty. In this regard, by providing a conceptual framework including different aspects of customer capital (i.e. customer targeting, ability to identify customer's need, construction and management of customer information system, cust...

Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty is becoming an increasingly important factor in modern retailing a market characterized by slow growth and intense competition. Big non-European chains such as Walmart are already present in some countries and consider to buy some of the retail chains in other countries e.g. the Scandinavian countries. This development will demand even more focus on cu...