Purpose: All business want to change from short-term orientations to a focus on building long-term relationships to attract better profits by customer retention This study aims to explore the path of the antecedents of relationship quality and loyalty for Urban Business Club: Landmark Club in Taiwan. Methods: Total of 127 members in Landmark Club was surveyed by convenience sampling. Then the d...

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 ...

Companies that offer loyalty reward programs believe that their programs have a long-run positive effect on customer evaluations and behavior. However, if loyalty rewards programs increase relationship durations and usage levels, customers will be increasingly exposed to the complete spectrum of service experiences, including experiences that may cause customers to switch to another service pro...

Purpose – Bridging indistinct relationships and online loyalty has become an important strategy for online interest-based communities’ operators and firms. The objective of this study is to draw on the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) to advance our understanding of the influences on the development of relationship quality and the consequent impact on members’ loyalty to online communities. D...

-Under the advancement of technology and change of environment, enterprises should comply with environmental trends, integrate internal and external resources and competence, adopt “immediate innovation” and knowledge flow in organizations, complementary competence and immediate and smooth communication with customers in order to allow organizations to acquire external knowledge and improve inn...

The relationship of employee job satisfaction with customer service quality evaluation and customer loyalty is studied. A study of the UK financial services industry finds that, contrary to previous research, employee job satisfaction does not affect customers’ perceptions of service quality; but there is a relationship between job satisfaction and one measure of customer loyalty repurchase int...

Keyword: Customer gratitude Relationship marketing Retailing Loyalty programs Customer gratitude represents the emotional core of reciprocity and plays a key force in developing and maintaining successful seller–buyer relational exchanges. Based upon personal interviews with 239 members of loyalty card programs of a department chain store, this study shows that alternative relationship marketin...

Fantasy football participation is an extremely-popular, yet unique online activity that combines traditional sport fandom with interactive components to enhance a fan’s overall sport experience. The player-specific concentration of the game, however, has the potential to alter traditional team-focused loyalties that have driven sport consumer behavior inquiry for decades. Due to this intriguing...

social responsibility is a collection of duties and commitments the organization should undertake to preserve, treat and help the society in which it operates. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of experience mediator on the relationship between managers' social responsibility and customer loyalty in sport clubs. the research method was correlation- survey. the statistical...

Information technology has transformed how travelers interact with travel service providers. Due to fierce competition in the online air travel industry, e-ticketing services have focused attention on fostering customer loyalty. This is an important strategy because, in general, initial transactions with new customers are less profitable than transactions with existing customers. Drawing on res...