Intent to Return
Cronin and Taylor (1992) found that service quality is an antecedent of consumer satisfaction and that consumer satisfaction has a stronger influence on a customer’s intent to purchase than does service quality. The intent to repurchase is so criti- cal because consumers form an attitude about a service provider on the basis of their prior expectations about the performance of the firm and this attitude affects their purchase intentions (Oliver, 1980). The general thought is that satisfaction mediates the relationship between perceived service quality and firm performance (Fornell, 1992).