The purpose of this paper is to test the links between employee and customer variables of service profit chain in banking sector of Pakistan. This is an analytical study based mainly on the primary data collected through scientifically developed questionnaires. The questionnaires have been personally administered on a sample size of 188 in case of employees and 192 in case of customers, chosen ...

Because the cost of attracting new customers is much higher than the cost of retaining old customers, keeping customers loyal is a crucial issue for service firms. This research explores how relationship quality and switching barriers influence customer loyalty. Relationship quality consists of two aspects: satisfaction and trust. Antecedents of satisfaction and trust are explored. To test the ...

This study used the partial least squares (PLS) approach to examine the effect of corporate reputation on the customer loyalty of the Food and Beverages Industry in Nigeria. The data for this study were collected from the customers in Kano State Nigeria. Out of 250 distributed questionnaires, 212 usable questionnaires were returned. Before examining the effect of corporate reputation on the cus...

The purpose of this study is to critically examine the effect relationship marketing (such as trust, commitment, communication effectiveness, and conflict handling) on customer loyalty in telecommunication service delivery sector. data for were gathered through a questionnaire. In addition, survey two hundred twenty-five (225) customers services Nigeria supports investigation. Statistical Packa...

it’s very difficult to differentiate the brands for companies in these days. because branding is not just market share but also share in mind and share in heart that is the core of experiential marketing. in this research using a research model and applying sem and pls, the effect of experiential marketing on brand commitment with the mediating role of brand attachment, brand trust and brand lo...

Purpose – This research seeks to explore the factors predicting customer loyalty in retail banking. Loyalty was measured in terms of a customer’s willingness to recommend a bank and their intention to remain with their main bank short-term (in the next six months) and long-term (from six months to five years). Design/methodology/approach – The study was based on a mail survey of 1,951 individua...

This study empirically examines the Influence of the Cognitive, Affective, Conative and Action Loyalty states as conceptualized by Oliver (1999) on the Word-of-mouth behavior about retail websites from the customers of the sites. Structural equation model is used to estimate the path coefficients between the loyalty states and the WordofMouthbehavior. Data collected from 511 under graduate and ...

Hypermarkets play an increasingly important role in the retail industry in Taiwan. In this study hypermarket customers in Taiwan were surveyed, using switching costs as a variable, to explore the relationship between customer value, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. The results indicate that a customer with a more positive perception of the value of products/services has a more posit...