Exploring the link between customer experience–loyalty–consumer spend

Mala Srivastava and Dimple Kaul

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2016, vol. 31, issue C, 277-286

Abstract: Customer experience has drawn significant interest in recent times from both academicians as well as practitioners. There is growing understanding in literature that attitudes are formed by past and present experiences and are expected to change as a function of consumer experience. Attitudes are described as one of the most important determinant of the behaviour. Dick and Basu (1994) were precise in suggesting that a favourable attitude and repeat purchase were required to define loyalty as they viewed loyalty in an attitude-behaviour framework, loyalty is an important concept related with repetitive purchasing behaviour and high Consumer spend. Literature suggests that building loyalty is found in successful management of Customer experience yet little research exist that incorporated this variable into explaining customer loyalty therefore signifying a gap in existing substantive knowledge. The current paper studies the impact of customer experience on attitudinal and behaviour loyalty. The study extends the findings by adding an observed behaviour- share of spend in the frame work. The present study will provide valuable insights to theorist in the retail context as well as practitioners ability to develop more effective strategies.

Keywords: Customer experience; Attitudinal loyalty; Behavioural loyalty; Consumer spend; Loyalty framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2016.04.009

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