The link between corporate social responsibility and customer loyalty: Empirical evidence from the Islamic banking industry

Muhammad Muflih

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2021, vol. 61, issue C

Abstract: Increased support from customers for Islamic financial services is very important to create resilience and competitiveness in the Islamic banking industry. By highlighting certain social activities, this paper estimates the role of Islamic banks’ CSR in influencing customer loyalty, both individually and through the integrated roles of image, trust, satisfaction, and reputation. These paths explore how CSR makes customers impressed, convinced, satisfied, amazed, and ultimately loyal to Islamic banks. The empirical analysis of partial least square structural equation modeling (n = 283) has shown that CSR directly and positively impacts loyalty. Indirectly, these two aspects have an insignificant relationship through the serial roles of image-reputation and satisfaction-reputation, but significant through the single role of reputation and the serial role of trust-reputation. This study has resulted in an updated prediction model of Islamic banking customer loyalty. The practical implication lies in the importance of developing CSR to generate trust and reputation which ultimately increase customer loyalty toward Islamic banks.

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility; Customer loyalty; Image; Trust; Satisfaction; Reputation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102558

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