Title :
Customers´ Switching Behavior Analysis with Change of Service Performance
Author :
Ma, Xiao-Long ; Zhou, Jie ; Li, Jian-Yu
Author_Institution :
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
Customers´ switching behavior analysis plays an important role in affecting market share and profitability of service providers. Existing researches mainly focus on the service provider selection criteria. Based on these studies, we propose a dynamic simulation model to study the impact of service performance changes on customers´ switching, and the corresponding influence on the changing of market share and profitability of service providers. Our model can integrate common variables which may influence switching such as service performance, customers´ satisfaction, loyalty, social interactions and so on, which can get quantifiable and reasonable dynamic simulation results. Simulation results are also provided.
Keywords :
customer satisfaction; customer services; profitability; service industries; customer satisfaction; customers switching behavior analysis; market share; profitability; service performance; service provider selection criteria; Complex networks; Discrete event simulation; Modeling; Network topology; Performance analysis; Profitability; Social network services; Customer Network; Service Selection Model; Service provider Network; Switching Behavior;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2007 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0885-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0885-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2007.4280118