A Developing Model of Relationship Among Service Quality, Consumer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Word of Mouth in Islamic Banking. This research aims to develop a measurement tool of service quality in Islamic banking sector, and examine its relationship among satisfaction, word of mouth (WOM), and consumer loyalty. A convenience sampling of 235 respondents collected from seven locations in the Lh...

Literature review revealed the importance of the adoption of marketing Relationship for loyalty and retaining profitable customer (Customer Relationship Management). LPQ satisfaction will reinforce the loyalty and customer brand attachment. Customer will communicate the operator to others. The focus of this study is to examine the relationship between the LPPQ and the WOM recommendations throug...

Consumers now have a variety of shopping information sources online and offline in making purchase decisions. How has the Web changed the perceptions of consumers regarding the relative importance of different shopping information sources? Applying the attribution principle and the least effort principle, the authors hypothesize the relative importance of self-evaluation and three types of reco...

We propose a model describing the synergetic feedback between word-of-mouth (WoM) and epidemic dynamics controlled by voluntary vaccination. The key feature consists in combining a game-theoretic model for the spread of WoM and a compartmental model describing VSIR disease dynamics in the presence of a program of voluntary vaccination. We evaluate and compare two scenarios for determinants of b...

Word-of-Mouth plays its great important role on the base of social network in affecting consumers’ shopping behaviour. However, it is little known how firms make a self-suitable marketing strategy according to both online and offline WOM effect in their product diffusion. This article investigates a new product diffusion process taking both offline WOM and online WOM effect into consideration. ...

Word of mouth (WOM) affects the buying behavior of information receivers stronger than advertisements. Opinion leaders further affect others in a specific domain through their new information, ideas and opinions. Identification of opinion leaders has become one of the most important tasks in the field of WOM mining. Existing work to find opinion leaders is based mainly on quantitative approache...

During the last few years, charitable crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular method of online fundraising for personal and charitable causes. Many such crowdfunding platforms encourage and facilitate the use of online word of mouth (WOM) through social networks and social media, to spread the word about the crowdfunding campaigns. While online WOM is commonly used to share information ...

Today’s consumers value the knowledge and opinions of others (Lawer and Knox 2006); indeed it is argued that word-of-mouth is replacing traditional mass media in influencing consumer attitudes and brand choice (Urban 2004). Research has suggested that word-ofmouth (WOM) plays an important role in shaping attitudes and behaviours of consumers (Herr et al. 1991). Day (1971) found that WOM was nin...

Online reviews (ORs) are fostering the spread of Word-Of-Mouth in the online environment (e-WOM). The popularity of e-WOM is constantly growing among consumers who use them before buying a product/service. Therefore, it is important for marketers to understand the antecedents of e-WOM. In this paper we have used the elaboration likelihood model to investigate the antecedents of consumers’ adopt...