• DocumentCode
    2992163
  • Title

    An empirical research on the influencing factors of express company´s customer loyalty

  • Author

    Jing-bo Shao ; Bei-bei Guo ; Ke-ke Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    20-22 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    679
  • Lastpage
    684
  • Abstract
    Customer-oriented relationship marketing theory has been recognized among the marketing researchers, maintaining and improving customer loyalty has become more and more important for enterprises. In this paper, the author studied the influencing factors of express company´s customer loyalty. After analyzing the relevant literatures on customer loyalty and combining with the express company´s industry characteristics, this article summarized seven probable main factors that influence the customer loyalty of express company, proposed eight research hypothesis and then established a conceptual model. 353 valid questionnaires were collected. Through the statistical analysis by SPSS19.0 and AMOS 17.0, the result indicated that customer satisfaction and service quality are two key factors affecting customer loyalty which provide a reference for the managers of express company in actual marketing practice.
  • Keywords
    consumer behaviour; customer satisfaction; customer services; statistical analysis; AMOS 17.0 statistical analysis; SPSS19.0 statistical analysis; conceptual model; customer satisfaction; customer service quality; customer-oriented relationship marketing theory; enterprises; express companys customer loyalty; express companys industry characteristics; Companies; Customer satisfaction; Industries; Mathematical model; Reliability; Switches; customer loyalty; express company; influencing factor; structure equation model;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dallas, TX
  • ISSN
    2155-1847
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-3015-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSE.2012.6414253
  • Filename
    6414253