because it can capture a behavioural component of loyalty and taps into a behavioural intention. In the service management literature, the majority of loyalty studies were mainly defined and operationalised according to the behavioural view (Opoku et al., 2008). In this study, customer loyalty measurement is mainly carried out by customers’ intentions to repeat transactions, or to recommend to others through positive word of mouth (WOM) (Yu et al., 2006). In this study customer loyalty measurement is adapted from Anderson and Robertson (1995),Putrevu and Lord (1994) and Zeithaml, Berry, and Parasuraman (1996).Regarding the measurement of corporate image and reputation, various researchers considers corporate image and reputation as a single dimension, while others considers it as a multi-dimensional construct consists of different dimensions such as competence, agreeableness, social responsibility, reputation and credibility, financial performance------(Gronroos, 1988; Davies et al., 2004; Kim, 2006;Minkiewicz et al., 2011; Sarstedt et al., 2012). In this study, corporate image and reputation measurement is mainly carried out as a single construct adapted from Anderson and Robertson (1995), Brown (1995), Kamp and MacInnis (1995), Caruana and Chircop (2000), Wallach et al. (2006), Sarstedt et al. (2012). All of the rating is accomplished on a five-point scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5).
Analysis and Results
The researchers used the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The first statistical analysis to be performed was coefficient Cronbach's alpha to measure the internal reliability analyses to examine various scales. Reliabilities of these scales were as follows,
Overall service quality is 0.953, corporate image and reputation is 0.801, customer satisfaction is 0.781 and customer loyalty is 0.768. On the other side, discriminate validity was measured by using Chi-square test. Based on the results of the chi-square analysis, the researchersss found that all of the variables were valid.
Correlation analysis
Evidence in table (1) showed that there was a significant positive relationship between corporate image and reputation and overall service quality (r=0.210, P<0.1) and between corporate image and reputation and customer satisfaction (r=0.774, P<0.1), and between corporate image and reputation and customer loyalty(r=0.175, P<0.1). This implies that there is a very strong correlation between the organization image and reputation and the value offered to the customers when they buy from it such as a high or even an excellent service with a reasonable price are said to influence their value judgements and consequently their satisfaction and loyalty towards the organization. Thus H1, H2 and H3 were supported.
Evidence in table (1) showed that there was a significant positive relationship between overall service quality and customer satisfaction (r=0.200, P<0.1) and between overall service quality and customer loyalty (r=0.209, P<0.1), and between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty (r=0.159, P<0.1). This implies that there is a very strong positive correlation between service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, in other words, the higher the service quality offered and perceived by
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