BACKGROUND Understanding customers has become an urgent topic for increasing competitiveness. The purpopse of the study was to develop a qualitative dynamic attribute value model which provides insight into the customers' value for healthcare institute managers by conducting the initial open-ended questionnaire survey to select participants purposefully. METHODS A total number of 427 question...

Previous studies on e-commerce have focused on the influence of the online website environment on purchasing decisions but rarely examined online brand loyalty from perspectives of brand trust and brand affect. Though antecedents of brand affect and trust have received attention, the relationship among these antecedents, brand affect and brand trust still remains unclear. Therefore, this study ...

Despite rapidly increasing numbers of diverse online shoppers the relationship of website design to trust, satisfaction, and loyalty has not previously been modeled across cultures. In the current investigation three components of website design (Information Design, Navigation Design, and Visual Design) are considered for their impact on trust and satisfaction. In turn, relationships of trust a...

Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty is becoming an increasingly important factor in modern retailing a market characterized by slow growth and intense competition. Big non-European chains such as Walmart are already present in some countries and consider to buy some of the retail chains in other countries e.g. the Scandinavian countries. This development will demand even more focus on cu...

The study of e-consumer behavior is getting more attention in e-commerce related literature. Acknowledging the importance of e-commerce, this study aims to investigate the influence of e-service quality dimensions (efficiency, requirement fulfilment, accessibility, privacy and responsiveness) on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty as well as to understand the mediating effect of customer...

Pledging lifelong loyalty to an ingroup can have far-reaching behavioural effects, ranging from ordinary acts of ingroup kindness to extraordinary acts of self-sacrifice. What motivates this important form of group commitment? Here, we propose one especially potent answer to this question-the experience of a visceral sense of oneness with a group (i.e., identity fusion). In a sample of British ...

To stand up for the brands they support, members of brand communities develop “oppositional brand loyalty” towards other rival brands. This study identifies how the interaction characteristics of brand community affect the perceived benefits of community members, and whether the perceived benefits cause members to develop community commitment, as well as the relationship between community commi...

The review of the literature reveals various relationships between the constructs of social identity, customer trust, and customer loyalty. Such results lead to questioning the nature of the conceptual structure that would include these constructs as well as their interrelationships in a structural model. From this perspective, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the mediating role of cust...

Document Summary) In recent research on service quality it has been argued that the relationship between perceived service quality and service loyalty is an issue which requires conceptual and empirical elaboration through replication and extension of current knowledge. A study focuses on the refinement of a scale for measuring service loyalty dimensions and the relationships between dimensions...