ecrm (electronic customer relationship management) systems focus on using the web-site as the main interaction channel for businesses to simulate an old fashioned one-to-one direct relationship—high touch—with customers. the purpose of this paper is to propose a model for the relationship between ecrm and e-loyalty by conceptualizing that e-loyalty is influenced by e-satisfaction and e-trus...

This paper examines the shifting role of perceived value and satisfaction in the formation of loyalty over the duration of a relationship life cycle. Drawing on a sample of online shoppers in Taiwan, the results show that the association between loyalty intention and shopping experiences conforms to an S-shaped growth curve. Customers’ intentions to stay with a website appear to be influenced b...

The study investigates the impact of brand equity on brand loyalty with the mediation of customer satisfaction in restaurant sector of Lahore, Pakistan. The study uses seven dimensions of brand equity, which include physical quality, staff behavior, ideal selfcongruence, brand identification, life style-congruence, trust and environment. Questionnaire has been used to collect the data from the ...

Customer satisfaction is the key factor for successful and depends highly on the behaviors of frontline service providers. Customers should be managed as assets, and that customers vary in their needs, preferences, and buying behavior. This study applied the Taiwan Customer Satisfaction Index model to a tourism factory to analyze customer satisfaction and loyalty. We surveyed 242 customers serv...

This research looks into the influence of the service quality and price on customer’s satisfaction and loyalty of commercial airline service industry. The objective of this research is to test and analyse the effect of service quality and price toward customer’s satisfaction and loyalty. This research used primary data through a survey of 310 respondents. The respondents were passengers, who ha...

2008 2 I dedicate this thesis to my dear mother and father 3 Abstract While a vast number of studies have pointed out the keys of relationship marketing practices in consumer markets, little attention has been paid to the value the organization can get from such strategies in the B2B market. The literature provides relatively little support for the effectiveness of relationship marketing progra...

Customer loyalty is one of the important approaches for retailers to improve competitive edge. Despite the importance of customer loyalty, some of the retail stores have lack on service quality, product quality, price strategy as well as customer satisfaction whereas needs a comprehensive work to explain how customers develop loyalty to a particular store. This study aims to evaluate the retail...

Although empirical research indicates that satisfaction is intimately linked to loyalty, anecdotal evidence reveals that many customers who state that they are very satisfied with a service provider nevertheless subsequently defect. In this paper, the authors focus on identifying which customers are vulnerable to defection despite stating high levels of satisfaction. Drawing on the emerging per...

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...