Earning customer loyalty: the role of satisfaction, trust, delight, commitment and involvement

Jana Bowden, Tracey Dagger, Greg Elliott

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Abstract

Relationship marketing theory emphasizes the importance of developing and maintaining customer-provider relationships. Strong customer relationships evolve over time and through repeated encounters. Through this process both parties learn from and adjust to each other, commitment and trust develop, and satisfactory experiences serve to reinforce customer loyalty. It is critical therefore that service providers understand how these relationships develop. The purpose of this study is to develop and test a relational model of customer loyalty in the context of a high involvement, high contact service. Specifically, we develop hypotheses relative to the impact of satisfaction, trust, delight arousal, delight pleasure, calculative commitment, affective commitment and involvement on loyalty. As an aside, we additionally consider the moderating role of consumption experience in the development of loyalty.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMarketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 2009 World Marketing Congress
EditorsColin L. Campbell
Place of PublicationCham Switzerland
PublisherSpringer
Pages362
Number of pages1
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9783319186870
ISBN (Print)9783319186863
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventAMS World Marketing Congress 2009 - Oslo, Norway
Duration: 22 Jul 200925 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameDevelopments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
PublisherSpringer
ISSN (Print)2363-6165
ISSN (Electronic)2363-6173

Conference

ConferenceAMS World Marketing Congress 2009
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityOslo
Period22/07/0925/07/09

Keywords

  • Affective Commitment
  • Customer Loyalty
  • Customer Segment
  • High Involvement
  • Structural Equation Modeling

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