Several studies have reported that affective commitment is a determinant of customer loyalty. For example, Morgan and Hunt (1994) found that affective commitment entirely mediated the relationship between consumer evaluations of background variables and customer loyalty.
Numerous research have investigated that commitment is a determinant of consumer loyalty. For instance, Liu (2007) examine on loyalty programs which help the firm to build customer commitment.
Loyalty programs not only play an instrumental role to help build customer commitment but they also demonstrate a firm’s commitment because such programs are often costly for firms to create and manage (Liu, 2007)