关于转换障碍与顾客忠诚关系的研究

转换障碍是顾客从一个供应商转向另一个供应商过程中所发生的障碍.转换障碍在解释和预测顾客忠诚方面具有与顾客满意同样的价值,它在满意--忠诚链中的调解作用对于保留顾客具有重要意义.文章提出,转换障碍具有行业差异性,即使在同一行业,转换障碍的各维度对顾客忠诚的作用也存在明显的不同.企业应注意测量现有和预期顾客的各类转换障碍,以便更好地将其作为吸引顾客以及保持顾客忠诚总体策略中的一部分来加以管理.     

转换障碍对满意和重复购买意图影响的实证分析

顾客满意对重复购买意图的正向作用在无数的文献中得到了证明,却少有人对转换障碍保留顾客的积极作用展开研究。转换障碍可以分为积极和消极两方面。通过Lisrel软件建立结构方程,对180个方便样本数据分析结果说明:转换障碍通过顾客满意对重复购买意图产生调和作用;积极转换障碍对顾客满意和重复购买意图产生正向作用,消极转换障碍对顾客满意和重复购买意图产生负向作用。这与其他研究者的结论有所差异,可解释的原因是:消极转换障碍较高的市场中的消费者会导致较高的不满情绪,从而导致转换意图产生。     

转换成本前置因素、转换成本以及顾客保留关系研究

虽然学术界对转换成本的研究较多，但是对影响转换成本的前置因素研究非常不足。本文在梳理文献的基础上，通过探索性因子分析将转换成本分成评估性转换成本、经济风险性转换成本、财务性转换成本、关系性转换成本共4类，并建立转换成本前置因素、转换成本以及顾客保留关系模型。基于模型分析不同的前置因素对转换成本的影响，以及转换成本对顾客保留的影响。     

浅谈关系营销中的顾客锁定机制

关系营销的根本目的是建立和强化与顾客之间的长期关系,而在买卖关系中,顾客转换成本是保持两者关系持久性的决定性因素。因此,充分利用顾客转换成本建立和强化顾客关系是实现关系营销目标的重要途径。     

让你的企业与众不同

挖掘护城河养鳄鱼,或不断迁移城堡的策略做法,都能令企业与众不同．也都意味着建立连入的障碍,提高转换成本,让顾客相信除你之外别无选择。     

服务业转换成本的形成机理与管理策略

随着服务业的竞争加剧和顾客争夺成本的提高 ,转换成本对企业保持顾客的功能已经引起理论界和实践界的广泛关注。基于国外最新的理论研究成果 ,本文对转换成本的形成机理、维度及其特征进行了分析和概括 ,指出转换成本在顾客满意与顾客忠诚关系中所具有的调节功能 ,最后探讨了转换成本管理策略。     

基于顾客转换成本的顾客忠诚提升机制研究

本文在系统回顾国内外顾客转换成本的影响因素、顾客转换成本及其与顾客忠诚关系等相关研究现状的基础上,提出了基于顾客转换成本的顾客忠诚提升机制的理论模型,并就模型对我国服务企业的营销启示进行了探讨。     

顾客主观知识对网络口碑的影响——基于社会认知理论视角

在社会认知理论中,网络环境、顾客认知和口碑行为之间的关系是辩证统一的。实证研究结果表明,顾客主观知识对网络正面/负面口碑呈显著的正向影响;社区参与自我效能感在两者间起部分中介和完全中介的作用;当网络社区是由企业创建时,社区参与自我效能感对正面口碑的影响比负面口碑更强烈,但当社区是由顾客创建时,社区参与自我效能感对正面和负面口碑的影响没有差别。企业应针对顾客主观知识的差异引导其进行网络口碑传播,在品牌社区中有意识地提高顾客社区参与自我效能感,利用不同的社区类型特点激发顾客的网络正面口碑。     

网上转换成本对顾客重复购买意愿影响的研究

以网络购买为代表的电子商务快速发展,深刻影响了现代社会的交易方式。而保持顾客忠诚度是电子商务企业在激烈的市场竞争环境中取胜的关键。本文基于以贡献和约束为基础的关系发展机制,构建概念模型,深入研究网络环境中供应商的相对吸引力和顾客满意对转换成本进而对顾客重复购买意愿的影响机制。研究结果表明:网上转换成本对顾客重复购买意愿有显著的正向影响;供应商的相对吸引力对网上转换成本和网上顾客满意都有显著的正向影响;网上顾客满意对网上转换成本有显著的正向影响,并在此基础上提出提高顾客重复购买意愿的相关对策建议。     

顾客忠诚度影响因素及培养策略

顾客忠诚度是企业竞争取胜的关键,它并不等同于顾客满意,影响顾客忠诚度的因素还有转换成本、顾客信任等。提高顾客忠诚度不仅要提供优质的产品及服务,也要利用好大数据。     

The Effect of Perceived Value and Switching Barriers on Customer Price Tolerance in Industrial Energy Markets

Purpose: This article analyzes the effects of perceived value, satisfaction, and switching barriers on price tolerance. It also examines the moderating effect of switching barriers.

Methodology/Approach: Empirical research was conducted by collecting information from a sample of 326 major gas and electricity consumers in a newly liberalized industrial market with a high concentration of suppliers.

Findings: Switching barriers are the main antecedent to price tolerance. Price tolerance of industrial customers depends directly on switching barriers more than on satisfaction. The customer satisfaction construct is a necessary but not sufficient predictor of price tolerance. While satisfaction has an effect on price tolerance, the effect of perceived value on price tolerance is only indirect through satisfaction, even though it may produce positive direct effects when there are high switching barriers.

Originality/Value/Contribution: For the first time in a B2B framework, the moderating effects of switching barriers on the relationship between perceived value, satisfaction, and price tolerance have been analyzed.     

An integrative framework for customer switching behavior

Due to increased intensity of competition, retention of customers has become a major concern in many service industries. Although researchers have investigated customer switching intention and its influential factors, the complex structural mechanisms that reduce the likelihood of switching intention in the field of financial services, especially in the banking context, have remained understudied. This paper addresses the role of customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, customer trust, and customer perceived value within a new conceptual model for customer switching intention in the banking services. In particular, the paper contributes to examine the potential moderating effect of switching barriers on the relationship between customer loyalty and switching intention as well as the relationship between satisfaction and switching intention of customers in the banking services. Data are collected through a questionnaire survey, and partial least squares-structural equation modeling is used for data analysis. Empirical results confirm the proposed model and hypotheses and show that switching barriers strengthen the impact of both customer loyalty and satisfaction on switching intention. The findings of this research offer a unified view of the structural relationships that contribute to reduced switching intention and provide more in-depth insights into the role of switching barriers in the banking context.     

The moderating role of switching barriers on customer loyalty in the life insurance industry

In recent service management literature, researchers have incorporated switching barriers as an important potential influential factor on customer loyalty and found that the impact of customer satisfaction on customer loyalty might vary under different switching barrier conditions. However, switching barriers and their importance in the life insurance service contexts have received little in-depth attention. This study aims to examine the impact of switching barriers as a potential moderator on the complex interrelationships among the antecedents and consequences of customer satisfaction in the life insurance service context. The main findings of this study show that the switching barriers do have a moderating effect and play a crucial role in winning customer loyalty.     

服务行业顾客重购意向的影响因素及其相互关系研究

本文探讨了转换壁垒、顾客感知价值、顾客满意对顾客重购意向的影响作用及其相互关系。以理发行业为研究对象,通过发放问卷收集数据,并运用结构方程分析软件进行了实证性检验,结果发现:顾客满意和顾客感知价值都对顾客重购意向具有直接显著影响;转换壁垒的不同维度对顾客重购意向的影响不同,社会利益对顾客重购意向产生积极的影响作用,转换成本不能增加顾客价值和顾客满意,但会对顾客产生锁定作用。对企业来说,管理者可以增加顾客满意和顾客感知价值来增加顾客重购意向,也可以通过提高顾客对转换壁垒的感知,从而对顾客起到锁定作用。     

Service value and switching barriers: a personal values perspective

This research aims to investigate how customers, the key actors in a service relationship, perceive service value and switching barriers. The study is framed along the means-end-chain theory of personal values and theory of customer resources in the service-dominant logic. Hypotheses about the impact of personal values on customer value, switching barriers and customer loyalty were tested using structural equation modeling of survey data obtained from the health care and retail banking sectors in Vietnam. The results show that in both sectors, personal values have a significant impact on perceived process and outcome value as well as on perceived economic and relational switching barriers. Economic barriers were found to affect loyalty in the banking sector, in the same way that relational barriers affect loyalty in the health-care sector only. Loyalty in both sectors is influenced by process but not by outcome value. The implications of these findings are discussed.     

Analyzing Customers' Switching Intentions in the Telecom Sector

ABSTRACT

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has not only affected customers' behavioral patterns, but also increased competition among telecom operators. Against this backdrop, the study examines the relationship between customers' switching intentions and attitude towards MNP, customer loyalty, and switching barriers. It also investigates the impact of these intentions on actual switching or staying behavior of customers. Data were collected from a sample of 260 telecom customers comprising university students. Findings reveal that customers' switching intentions would largely depend upon switching barriers perceived by them. Switching intentions predict both actual staying and switching behavior. Our understanding of switching barriers is limited to those involved in switching from a current service provider to a new service provider. Future research can examine the barriers associated with returning to the original provider and the effect on the decision to leave in the first place, especially in the case of contractual agreements such as BSNL. The present study will help practitioners and telecom service providers in understanding the factors affecting customers' switching intentions to prevent switching.     

Key account relationship management: the moderating effects of relationship duration and transaction volume

This study investigates the impact of three relational benefits (i.e. financial benefits, human interaction benefits, preferential treatment benefits) on switching barriers, customer satisfaction, and behavioral loyalty for key accounts in the context of the air express delivery industry in Taiwan. Empirical results indicate that relational benefits impact switching barriers, switching barriers influence customer satisfaction and loyalty, and customer satisfaction effects loyalty. Findings also confirm most of the hypothesized moderating effects for relationship duration and transactional volume on the relationship between relational benefits and switching barriers. Specifically, long-term key accounts place greater emphasis on the human interaction and preferential treatment benefits. Key accounts that have less established relationships based on the length of business relationship place more importance on financial benefits. Financial benefits were found to have a positive influence on switching barriers only for low annual transactional volume clients, while both human interaction benefits and preferential treatment benefits have positive effects for both low and high transactional volume key accounts.     

消费者重购意向形成影响因素与作用机制研究

维系老顾客,满足顾客的期望,不断增加顾客的重购行为对企业提高市场竞争力具有非常重要的意义。顾客满意、顾客的品牌偏好、顾客的多样化追求倾向、替代品的吸引力和顾客感知的转换壁垒是影响顾客重购的主要因素。同时,在此基础上模仿了电子技术中的并联回路,建立了影响因素的作用机制模型。     

How habits, social ties, and economic switching barriers affect customer loyalty in contractual service settings

While existing literature acknowledges positive effects of satisfaction and economic switching barriers for building customer loyalty, studies analyzing interactions of these antecedents reveal mixed findings. Prior research does not consider, as antecedents of switching barriers, either habits or social ties that result from shared service-usage within a family or community. This paper contributes to the literature, first, by replicating the effects of satisfaction, economic switching barriers, and their interaction with customer loyalty and word-of-mouth of subscribers to a contractual service. Second, the study empirically tests the role of social ties as a social switching barrier. Third, the study introduces and tests the effects of habits as a precursor of economic and social switching barriers. Results reveal significant positive effects of satisfaction, economic switching barriers, and social ties on customer loyalty and word-of-mouth. Additionally, economic switching barriers and social ties interact significantly with satisfaction and habits act as a precursor of economic switching barriers and social ties.     

Online loyalty and its interaction with switching barriers

The results of empirical research on online retail switching tendencies is quite mixed and only a few have specifically examined the presence, frequency or impact of switching barriers and switching inducements in the context of online services. Empirical evidence shows that there is “stickiness to certain sites” experienced by online customers and that they do less comparative shopping than might be expected. This paper conceptualises online switching behaviour as the interaction of barriers and inducements (both real and perceived) using Oliver׳s four-stage loyalty model. It also highlights the need to re-examine the concept of online loyalty and its interaction with switching barriers and inducements in the online context.