The rationale of this study is to look at the association between services quality of Pakistani hotel and to scrutinize cause on customer satisfaction, brand image and customer loyalty. The primary data was collected from 5 and 8 star hotels of Pakistan. The response rate was 86%. Structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was used to analyze the data. The findings suggested that high quality...

Customer interface quality, perceived security, and customer loyalty are critical factors for success of an e-commerce website; however, the relationships among them are not fully understood. We proposed a model for testing the relationships among them and the important outcomes of the site: switching costs and customer loyalty. Data was collected to test the model using a web-based survey, and...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of individual dimensions of perceived service quality on customer satisfaction, trust and loyalty in e-commerce settings. Empirical results indicate that the perceived service quality has positive direct effects on both customer satisfaction and trust. The results also show that customer satisfaction appears to have a positive direct effect on ...

Quality function development (QFD) is a planning tools used to fulfill customer expectation and QFD is a systematic process to translating customer requirement (WHATs) into technical description (HOWs). QFD aims to maximize customer satisfactions related to enterprise satisfaction. The inherent fuzziness of relationships in QFD modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the r...

A research agenda for multimedia networking is presented. The discussion centers around an extended reference model (XRM) that includes networking and multimedia computing devices. The XRM explicitly models the broadband and media processors, the multimedia network and the services and applications network. The interface between these models is given by quality of service and service abstractio...

Known as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in recent years a concept for business that focuses customers is often discussed in research and practice. After initially extraordinary expectations, numerous CRM projects fail. Thereby as one of the major reasons an overestimated and poor data quality is very frequently mentioned. Many authors assume a positive correlation between data quality a...

Application service providers are trying their best to enhance existing customers’ loyalty because of the prosperous and competitive market. Customers switch suppliers based on economic evaluation. Other suppliers easily imitate the competitive edge derived from price and cost factors. From social exchange theory and relationship management, psychological factors are important for industrial cu...

While logistics services have become a significant source of competitive differentiation between firms, significant challenges exist relative to developing logistics service offerings for global business customers. Diverse regulations across borders, longer lead times, and increased transportation costs all add to the difficulty of managing logistics services internationally. As a service offer...

Literatures indicate that service management has become a strategic issue for companies in the new millennium. By improving logistics service quality (LSQ), logistics companies can increase customer satisfaction (CS) and gain market shares. This study aims to establish a logistics service attributes analysis model to extract customer knowledge for logistics service quality improvement based on ...