The objective of this paper is to reveal the factors that determine customers’ loyalty intention in the electronic marketplace. Seven hypotheses were postulated based on an extensive literature review in terms of sales behaviour, trust, satisfaction and price fairness. An empirical survey was then designed and conducted. The sample comprised customers who had made purchases from the best-known ...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effects of consumers’ perceptions concerning the ethics of online retailers on web site satisfaction and loyalty. Design/methodology/approach – An online survey instrument was administered to a sample of 220 students who were enrolled in various business undergraduate classes at a mid size university located in the southwestern USA. Participants complete...

BACKGROUND Previous research has addressed the relationship between customer satisfaction, perceived quality and customer loyalty intentions in consumer markets. In this study, we test and compare three theoretical models of the quality-satisfaction-loyalty relationship in the Chinese healthcare system. METHODS This research focuses on hospital patients as participants in the process of healt...

Since the provision of blood and blood products depends entirely on the willingness of donors to spend their blood for this purpose, we felt that an International Forum of Vox Sanguinis should be devoted to donor recruitment and in particular to ‘donor loyalty’ and to ‘barriers to blood donation’. To obtain information on these subjects, the following questions were sent to experts in the field...

Considering the heterogeneity of customer purchase behavior in loyalty programs partnerships, in the asymmetric situation of enterprise A who joins the loyalty programs partnerships while enterprise B who implements customer loyalty programs alone, discussing the win-win mechanism of loyalty programs partnerships through the two stage game model, and providing equilibrium price and asymmetric e...

The proposed model is theoretically grounded in the multi-attribute attitude literature. It is proposed that the antecedents of customer loyalty are be partitioned into three categories. First, supply-side (firm-controllable) customer loyalty antecedents are those satisfaction drivers that comprise total customer experience (TCE). Eight distinct TCE dimensions are identified through preliminary...

background: service quality is perceived as an important factor for developing patient's loyalty. the aim of this study was to determine the hospital service quality from the patients' viewpoints and the relative importance of quality dimensions in predicting the patient's loyalty. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2010.the study sample was composed of 943 patients selected from...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the attitudinal brand loyalty variables (i.e., cognitive, affective, and conative components), team identification, and customer satisfaction by developing a structural equation model, based on Oliver's (1997) attitudinal brand loyalty model. The results of this study confirmed the study of brand loyalty stages by Oliver (1997)...

Customer loyalty is a component with considerable focus on by relationship-oriented marketing. Firm brand is one of the factors that play significant role in creating brand loyalty. Therefore in this research, we studied brand effect on customer loyalty. Also in this research, we examined customer satisfaction, loyalty, perceived quality and brand equity (brand value) in relation to customer lo...