Customer loyalty is seen as one of the key factors of a company’s success. According to current research results, a necessary premise among others to gain customer loyalty is how the customers perceive the customer service. In the field of B2C e-commerce online customer support areas are used to fulfill parts of this support duty. It is an open question how big the impact of the online customer...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Brand loyalty Individual level collectivist values Perceived value Brand trust Perceived quality China In today's dynamic business environment the success of a firm often depends on its ability to create brand loyalty. While there is a large body of research exploring brand loyalty and its antecedents, little has been done to examine how the relationship between ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Customer–brand identification Company identity Brand identity Social identity Brand loyalty This paper proposes a social identity perspective of customer–brand relationship and integrates brand identity and identification with value, trust and satisfaction in predicting brand loyalty. Two studies' empirical results support this path to brand loyalty framework. Th...

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...

*Corresponding Author Email: zimozizi77@gmail.com Tel.: +8613570153794 This study identifies determinant factors of customer e-loyalty towards the advertising shown on Durex Thailand facebook fan page. Other variables include advertising value (Entertainment, Informativeness, and Brand usage imagery congruity), e-satisfaction and e-trust, which can affect e-loyalty. Exploratory sequential desig...

The high cost of attracting new customers on the Internet and the relative difficulty in retaining them make customer loyalty an essential asset for many online vendors. In the non-Internet marketplace, customer loyalty is primarily the product of superior service quality and the trust that such service entails. This study examines whether the same applies with online vendors even though their ...

Using the data collected from the online banking users in Taiwan, we build a hierarchical model of ebanking service quality and investigate the relationships among e-service quality, trust, satisfaction, loyalty, and brand equity. Moreover, the simultaneous equations system approach is also applied to transfer the traditional satisfaction-loyalty path into the simultaneous relationships between...

Along with the e-commerce development, relationship between customers and vendors in e-retail market arouses researchers’ attention. The technology explosion, particularly in the area of knowledge management, makes track of customer behaviour possible. Much research has been done on trust and satisfaction in e-commerce, but little studies integrate confirmation of expectation and sense of belon...

The primary objective of this research is to develop a theory-based model of utilitarian and hedonic website features, customer commitment, trust, and e-loyalty in an online hotel booking context. Structural Equation Modeling was deployed to test research hypotheses. Findings highlight the importance of creating loyalty by focusing on both hedonic and utilitarian features. Affective commitment ...

considering the importance of the factors affecting customer satisfaction and loyalty, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between performance and characteristic of a online stores – digi-kala in this particular case, as a perfect example of an electronic customer relationship system, and customer's electronic loyalty and satisfaction. as a practical-descriptive, research, ele...