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The Effect of Airline Service Encounter Quality on Customer Loyalty

항공사 서비스 접점품질이 고객 애호도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2014.04.08
  • Accepted : 2014.05.27
  • Published : 2014.08.30

Abstract

The service quality customers perceived has positive relationships with trust, image, and satisfaction toward airline companies. Providing personal and non-personal services could be factors that build up not only overall impressions but positive and negative emotions and could be connected to customer behavioral intention. Thus, this research divided service encounter quality into personal and non-personal encounter quality and investigated effects of two types of service encounter quality on airline image, perceived value and customer loyalty. The result shows that personal service encounter quality has a positive effect on airline image and a negative effect on perceived value. Non-personal service encounter quality has an influence on airline image and a negative influence on perceived value. Personal service encounter quality does not have a significant effect on customer loyalty but non-personal service encounter quality has an effect on customer loyalty. Airline image does not affect perceived vlaue significantly however, do affect customer loyalty. Finally, perceived value does not have a significant effect on customer loyalty.

고객들이 지각하는 서비스 품질은 항공사에 대한 신뢰 및 이미지, 만족에도 긍정적 영향관계를 형성한다. 인적서비스와 비인적서비스의 제공은 소비자들의 항공사에 대한 전반적인 인상 및 긍정적 혹은 부정적 느낌을 형성하는 영향요소이며, 고객의 행동 의지까지 연결될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 서비스 접점 품질에 대한 변수들을 인적서비스접점과 비인적서비스접점으로 구분하고 항공사 이미지와 지각된 가치, 애호도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지를 살펴보고자 한다. 연구결과 인적서비스 접점 품질은 항공사 이미지에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며 지각된 가치에는 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 비인적서비스 접점 품질은 항공사 이미지에 긍정적인 영향을 미치며 지각된 가치에는 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 인적서비스 접점 품질은 고객 애호도에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났으나, 비인적서비스 접점 품질은 고객 애호도에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 항공사 이미지는 지각된 가치에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났지만 고객 애호도에는 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 지각된 가치는 고객 애호도에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다.

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