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A Study on the Determinants of Medical Institution's Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty: Focused on the Effects of Service Quality Factors

  • Seungnyun Choi
    • Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.346-354
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    • 2023
  • Objective: The objective of this study is to provide medical institutions with theoretical basis by analyzing the effect of service quality-related factors. It will be helpful for hospitals to enhance service quality which will be of use to attain customer satisfaction and ultimately competitive advantage. Design: An empirical study. Methods: To verify the model, I conducted a questionnaire survey analysis. Items for measurement have been extracted from several related studies on medical industry. The survey target has been set by convenience sampling method and consists of citizens reside in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do Province, and total number of 161 samples have been analyzed. To verify validity and reliability, I conducted factor analysis and reliability analysis, and for hypotheses verification, multiple regression analyses have been performed. Results: This study aims to investigate the relation between service quality factors and customer satisfaction, and also those factors and customer loyalty. Service quality factors consist of Tangibles(X1), Reliability(X2), Assurance(X3), Responsiveness(X4), and Empathy(X5). According to the results of regression analyses, X1, X2, X3, and X5 have been proved to have positive relations with customer satisfaction and loyalty, whereas hypothesis related X4 has not been supported. Finally, customer satisfaction has been founded to affects positively to customer loyalty. Conclusions: Service quality factors are significantly related to customer satisfaction and loyalty. So medical institutions should aware of this and try to enhance service quality for attaining competitive advantage.

The Relationship among Web Design, e-Satisfaction, e-Loyalty, and Customer Defection (웹디자인, e-만족, e-충성도, 고객이탈 간의 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Keum Soo;Chung, Ki Han
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.213-229
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship among five factors of web design, e-satisfaction, e-loyalty, and customer defection and provide the implications of marketing strategies in online shopping. The research findings are as follows: first, ease of use of web design affects positively e-satisfaction more than the other factors except financial security. Second, e-satisfaction affects positively e-loyalty. Third, e-satisfaction does not affect customer defection. Fourth, informativeness, styling, ease of use, and trust of web design affect indirectly e-loyalty by mediating e-satisfaction. Therefore, because there is a good circular relationship among web design, e-satisfaction, and e-loyalty, it is very important to enhance web design for customers. When customers satisfy highly with the factors of web design, e-loyalty is higher and customer defection is lower. Further, in a curriculum of web design it is needed to reflect the findings of this paper.

Building Customer Loyalty with Trust and Familarity in the Internet-based Shopping-mall (인터넷쇼핑몰에서 신뢰와 친밀감이 고객충성도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, Il-Sang;Choi, Su-Jeong
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.187-207
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    • 2005
  • In the Internet-based B2C e-commerce, trust has been recognized as a critical factor to reduce uncertainties, through interacting with a well-known specific shopping mall. In this study, we view customer trust as not a unitary concept but multidimensional one consisted of the trustworthiness of trustee, familiarity with the specific shopping-mall, disposition to trust, and institution-based trust. In this study, first, we considered the trustworthiness of trustee consisted of capability, benevolence, and integrity as one of the major factors to build customer trust on the specific Internet shopping-mall. In the context of the Internet e-commerce, the role of institutional structures is very important to assure the customer trust from the various opportunistic behaviors because of the characteristics of internet-based commerce such as impersonality, the lack of information on the other party, and the transactions with a number of anonymous people. Second, we examined the effect of the institution-based trust built by institutional structures on customer trust. Third, we examined the effect of customer trust and familiarity on retaining customer loyalty. Our findings showed that customer trust and familiarity played a major role in retaining customer loyalty with the specific shopping-mall. In conclusions, we discussed the strategies to build the customer loyalty for maintaining the customer. We suggest customer trust and familiarity for the factors to bind the customer with the specific shopping-mall based on these results.

An Empirical Study on the Effect of Customer Satisfaction and Customer delight on Customer Loyalty; Focusing on Repurchase and Customer Retention (고객만족과 고객감동이 고객충성도에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증연구; 재구매와 고객유지에 대한 중점 연구)

  • Park, Youn-Ja
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.109-123
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    • 2019
  • Recently, As the desire of consumer gets complexed and demanding, business environment is they are rapidly changing to customer-oriented ones. In order to survive in an age of fierce competition with competitor encompassing changing and customer's needs of consumer company emphasizes market orientation to have a sustainability. It is necessary not only satisfy consumer but also to provide customer delight. We want to see if customer's loyalty can be increased by experiencing C/S and C/D. First, customer's loyalty influences repurchase intention after experiencing customer's satisfaction and customer's delight. Second, customer's satisfaction is influenced by customer's satisfaction level. Especially Joy is one of the most important factor affecting customers delight. Third, customer's loyalty is one of the most important factor affecting customer's satisfaction. Finally, through this study, it was found tha customer's satisfaction and customer's satisfaction improve the repurchase relationship which is crucial from customer's loyalty.

Affecting Customer Loyalty by Improving Corporate Image and Customer Value through Corporate Social Responsibility Activities (기업의 사회적 책임활동을 통한 기업이미지 및 고객가치 향상이 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jong-Ho;Hwang, Hee-Joong;Song, In-Am
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - Recently, a variety of activities for practicing the continuing management of domestic and foreign companies have been conducted and further, corporate social responsibility for maximizing the value of stakeholders such as customers, cooperative companies, and the local community emerges as a key business strategy. Accordingly, the issue of whether corporate image and customer value through corporate social responsibility activities positively affect customer loyalty and customer attitude is investigated in this study. Research design, data, and methodology - Corporate social responsibility activities are classified into legal and moral activities, environmental protection activities, economic activities, and community service activities; further, customer values are classified into emotional value, functional value, and social value, to determine the parameters. In addition, the strategic approach direction of social responsibility activities is justified as a strategy for effectively achieving the expected results that corporations seek by proving the effect of these parameters on customer loyalty. Results - The study results can be summarized as follows. First, legal and moral activities, environmental protection activities, economic activities, and community service activities are four types of CSR activities affecting meaningful improvements in corporate image. Second, legal and moral activities affect factors that meaningfully improve customer value, including factors such as emotional value, functional value, and social value, while environmental protection activities affect improvements in the factor of social value only. Third, corporate image affects meaningful improvements in customer value. Fourth, corporate image affects improvements in customer loyalty positively. Fifth, the three factors of customer value, that is, emotional value, functional value, and social value affect meaningful improvements in customer loyalty. Sixth, customer value acts to partly mediate the effect of companies' CSR activities on customer loyalty. As shown in the study results above, it was verified that CSR activities affect meaningful improvements in corporate image and customer value and, in turn, corporate image and customer value affect meaningful improvements in customer loyalty. In addition, it was verified that customer value acts to partly mediate the effects of companies' CSR activities on customer value. Conclusions - Accordingly, the results of this study suggests as follows. First, it was clearly verified that customers' recognition of CSR efforts has a positive effect on corporate image, customer value, and loyalty because CSR activities improve the relationships between customers and corporations by providing customers with value. Second, it was suggested that corporations implement social contribution activities strategically according to the theory that the higher the rate of CSR activities, the better the corporate image and repurchase intention would be, which is a theory verified through practical analysis. Corporations should do this by constructing positive relationships from the value perceived by customers. To summarize the study results in a brief manner, it is suggested by the results of the study that a corporation should conduct CSR more actively to make customers recognize the positive image of their products and services.

Effects of Service Quality of the Indoor Golf Practice Facility on Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty and Intention to Repurchase : Verification of Mediating Effect on Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty (실내골프연습장의 서비스품질이 고객만족, 고객충성도 및 재등록의사에 미치는 영향 : 고객만족과 고객충성도의 매개효과 검증)

  • Lee, Sheng Yen;Park, Kyoung Shil;Cong, Rui
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.497-510
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to establish effects of service quality of the indoor golf practice facility on customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and intention to repurchase. Consumers using indoor golf practice facility were selected as the target population of this study, and 238 individuals were extracted by convenience sampling and administered a survey. The results are as follows. First, facility, process, instructor positively influence customer satisfaction. Second, facility, instructor positively influence customer loyalty. Third, facility, process, instructor positively influence intention to repurchase. Fourth, customer satisfaction positively influence intention to repurchase. Fifth, customer loyalty positively influence intention to repurchase. Sixth, customer satisfaction mediated service quality of indoor golf practice facility and intention to repurchase. Finally, customer loyalty partly mediated service quality of indoor golf practice facility and intention to repurchase.

Effect of Environmental Marketing on Consumer Trust and Loyalty at Coffee Stores (커피전문점의 환경마케팅이 소비자 신뢰 및 충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Ji-Eung;Park, Ji-Yang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.251-260
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    • 2012
  • This study was designed to provide practical environmental marketing data by measuring the effect of environmental marketing on customer loyalty and trust at coffee stores. The results were obtained by empirical analysis and are summarized as follows. The first hypothesis, the effect of environmental marketing on consumer trust at coffee stores, showed that environmental marketing at coffee stores had a statistically significant positive effect on consumer trust. Price, product, and facilities as sub-factors of environmental marketing at coffee stores had effects on consumer trust. Especially, facilities was the highest. The second hypothesis, the effect of environmental marketing on customer loyalty at coffee stores, showed that environmental marketing at coffee stores had a statistically significant positive effect on customer loyalty. Price, product, and facilities as sub-factors of environmental marketing at coffee stores had effects on customer loyalty. Especially, facilities was the highest. The third hypothesis, the effect of consumer trust on customer loyalty at coffee stores, showed that consumer trust at coffee stores had a statistically significant positive effect on customer loyalty. Improvement of consumer trust by environmental marketing was an important factor in improving customer loyalty. As for these findings, price, product, and facilities as sub-factors of environmental marketing at coffee stores had effects on consumer trust and loyalty. Consequently, these findings provide helpful information for coffee stores to plan environmental marketing strategies and establish direction, and they can be used for management activities.

Effect of Quality of Telemedicine Services in Remote Areas of the Military on Customer Loyalty: Mediation Effect of User Satisfaction (군 격오지 원격의료서비스 질이 고객충성도에 미치는 영향: 이용만족도의 매개효과)

  • Kim, Dong-Hwan;Nam, Jin-Young
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.34-43
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    • 2022
  • Objective: Telemedicine service is gaining importance in remote military areas. This study aimed to explore the mediating effect of user satisfaction on the association between military telemedicine service's quality and customer loyalty. Methods: The research data comprised the results of a satisfaction survey on 1,116 military telemedicine satisfaction surveys conducted from November 1 to November 31, 2021. T-tests and ANOVA were analyzed to confirm the difference in satisfaction and loyalty according to the general characteristics of the study subjects. User satisfaction, customer loyalty, and mediating effects were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. Results: Among the study subjects, 458 were affiliated with the Army, 68 with the Navy, and 36 with the Air Force. Among the quality of telemedicine service, tangibility, reliability, and empathy affected user satisfaction while reliability and empathy affected customer loyalty. Since the standardized coefficient beta of empathy was 0.150 (P=0.018), it was confirmed that it significantly affected customer loyalty by mediating user satisfaction. Conclusion: The telemedicine service's quality affects users' satisfaction and customer loyalty. Moreover, there was the mediating effect of user satisfaction on the association between telemedicine service and customer loyalty. Therefore, the reliability and reliability of the current telemedicine service can be improved through the replacement of outdated equipment and performance improvement, expansion of medicines in telemedicine units, and improvement of medical services through periodic CS education to increase the customers' satisfaction and loyalty.

The Routes of Psychological Ownership and the Effect of Psychological Ownership on Customer Loyalty in Fanpage of Facebook (팬페이지에서 심리적 주인의식의 경로와 고객로열티)

  • Lee, Ju-Min;Cha, Min-Jung
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.21-42
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    • 2018
  • Purpose This study investigates that the routes of psychological ownership in Fanpage and the effect of psycholoigical ownership on customer loyalty based on psychological ownership theory. Fans are customers who clicked 'Like' on the fan page. These fans have a lot of friends on Facebook, so the word-of-mouth is more effective than other online communities. Therefore, it is necessary for fans to have psychological ownership, actively responding to the fan pages, and recommending them to friends. However, previous social network service studies have overlooked the importance of psychological ownership. In this study, we examine what factors can increase psychological ownership and show that customer loyalty can be enhanced through psychological ownership. Design/methodology/approach This study was designed to investigate the structural relationship between Fanpage Familiarity, Interaction(Customer-Brand interaction and Customer-customer interaction), Psychological Ownerhisp, and Customer Loyalty. Structural equation modeling with SmartPLS2.0 was used to analyze the relationships in the research model. Findings The results showed that Fanpage Familiarity and Customer-customer interaction is positively related with Psychological Ownership. However, Customer-Brand interaction did not influence Psychological Ownership. Psychological Ownership has a positive impact on Intention to Continue Using Fanpage and Recommend.

Building Fashion Customer Loyalty by Service Recovery and the Effect of Explanations on It (서비스 복구를 통한 패션고객의 충성 형성과정과 설명의 효과)

  • Ahn, Soo-Kyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.841-855
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    • 2011
  • This study examines the structured model of building fashion customer loyalty by service recovery and scrutinizes the effect of explanations on perceived justice and the proposed model. The data of a total of 300 women were collected through an online survey. Employing structural equation modeling, this study demonstrated that both distributive and interactional justice had a positive impact on customers' satisfaction with service encounter that subsequently led to overall satisfaction with the brand. Overall satisfaction influenced the attitudinal loyalty of customers that induced their behavioral loyalty. To examine the effect of explanations on perceived justice and the process of building fashion customer loyalty by service recovery, t-test and multi-group SEM were employed. The result displayed that the group who received explanations after service failure perceived higher level of justice than the one who did not. There was a significant difference between two groups on the direct path from interactional justice to overall satisfaction with the brand. This study clarifies how perceived justice influences fashion customer loyalty mediating by satisfaction in and confirms the critical role of explanations in service recovery context. By implying the understanding of the important role of explanations in service recovery context, this study provides fashion marketers with insight for delivering more successful service recovery strategies that enhance customer loyalty.