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...

Retail brands (RBs) have become a strategic feature of the retail industry. Their role in building consumer loyalty is usually taken for granted and yet has not been completely identified. The purpose of this paper is to understand how retailers manage customer knowledge relationship management through an integrated framework of CRM and Knowledge management for retail brands and their role in b...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the relationship marketing underpinnings, namely: commitment; competence; communication and conflict handling on the one hand and customer loyalty on the other, as well as the mediation effects of trust and relationship quality. Design/methodology/approach Bank customers in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia were surveyed using a questionnaire....

this study aims to determine organizational citizenship behavior’s impact on customer loyalty and quality of services. that is to examine, organizational citizenship behavior of nurses and patients (customers) of the kermanshah province hospitals by two hypotheses. population comprised of 1524 nurses which 544 nurses were selected as sample. also sample of same size in a random way in a period ...

in today’s business environment, firms in pursuing the goal of efficiency, outsource many necessary, but non-core operations. the majority of pervious outsourcing studies have focused on the costs and benefits analysis, while this research work examines a behavioral approach in outsourcing decisions. this study examines the effects of perceived trust on loyalty through mediatory role of relatio...

This study explores the moderating effect of technology acceptance on the relationship between customer relationship management (CRM) in terms of distribution and tailor-made functions and customer loyalty in the banking industry. The author uses LISREL two-group path analysis to find the variances between high and low technology acceptance. Data collected from the customers of nine retail bank...

The emerging social media brand communities provide a good platform for marketers to promote brands to their members. Marketers are devoting time and efforts to building their social media fan pages; however, the elusive question of whether their social media fans exhibit any behavioural loyalty in terms of actual purchase behaviour remains unanswered. Based on the characteristics of social med...

The Malaysian hypermarkets have steadily increased over the past decades with brand loyalty emerging as a frontrunner in the retail industry. There have been copious studies related to the effects of marketing mix towards brand equity instead of brand loyalty. It is the intention of the researcher to identify the effects of marketing mix on brand loyalty in the Malaysian hypermarkets sector. Th...