Customer commitment is considered as a key element in longterm relationships
Customer commitment is also a part of key element in long-term relationships
Morgan and Hunt (1994) define commitment as an exchange partner believing that an ongoing relationship with another is so important as to guarantee maximum attempts at preserving it. Wilson (1995) also support that relationship commitment is central to relationship marketing as the most generally used dependent variable used in purchaser and retailer relationship studies. That is the perceived significance and high value of the relationship to the committed partner (Little and Marandi 2003). While, other researcher have defined commitment as an enduring desire to maintain a valued relationship (Moorman et al. 1992). Implicit in this definition is a higher degree of responsibility to make it mutually beneficial and fulfilling (Ndubisi 2007; Gundlach et al. 1995; Morgan and Hunt 1994). In relationship literature, it would be considered as a situation where the parties’ intentions to act and their subsequent attitude towards interacting with each other. High relationship value will affect commitment positively (Storbacka et al. 1994).