Few, if any, past studies have attempted to develop a model to capture and explain industry context variability and hypothesize
its effects on consumer-firm relationships. Generally, industry effects are ignored, described, or explained post hoc. Using
the notion of consumers' dispositions toward a market, a framework is proposed for understanding the influence of industry
context on consumer satisfaction, trust, value, and loyalty in relational exchanges. The empirical results of a survey in
two service industries show that industry contexts matter and yield significant direct and moderating effects on consumer-firm
relationships. The study underscores the promise of a dispositional approach for providing insights for the theory and practice
of relationship marketing, resolvin goutstanding questions, and proposing fruitful areas for further examination.
Edwin Nijssen, Ph.D., is a professor of marketing at the Nijmegen School of Management at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
His research interest focuses on strategic and international marketing issues, relationship marketing, brand management, and
new-product development. He has published in
Long Range Planning, the
Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, R&D Management, Industrial Marketing Management, and the
Journal of International Marketing and has written several books on marketing strategy.
Jagdip Singh, Ph.D., is a professor of marketing at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. His primary
areas of research include consumer dissatisfaction and trust, measurement issues—including relationships between theoretical
concepts and empirical observations— and the effectiveness of boundary role personnel. He has published in the
Journal of Marketing, the
Academy of Management Journal, the
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and
Management Science, among others.
Deepak Sirdeshmukh, Ph.D., is a visiting assistant professor of marketing at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
His primary areas of research include consumer trust and consumer processing of brand information. He has published in the
Journal of Marketing, the
Journal of Marketing Research, the
Journal of Consumer Research, the
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and the
Journal of Consumer Psychology, among others.
Hartmut H. Holzmüeller, Ph.D., is a professor of marketing at the School of Business at Dortmund University, Germany. His research interests include
cross-national consumer research and customer relationship marketing. Most of his work has been published in German. His articles
also appeared in the
Journal of International Marketing, Management International Review, and
International Business Review.
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