Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry

In today market, organizations from retail industry are fighting for survival in today’s intense market place. Such dynamic challenges placed loyalty customer as an important asset to maintain the retail store’s success. Thus, the strategies that retailers using to build and to maintain the relation...

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Main Author: Phua, Tin Chew
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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description In today market, organizations from retail industry are fighting for survival in today’s intense market place. Such dynamic challenges placed loyalty customer as an important asset to maintain the retail store’s success. Thus, the strategies that retailers using to build and to maintain the relationship with customers are extremely important. Therefore, this research is conducted to evaluate the link between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian retailing industry. Based on a detailed literature review, research constructs and a proposed model is developed. A quota sampling methodology, questionnaire survey is conducted to target 400 respondents from Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya and Klang. The SPSS 17.0 is employed to test the hypotheses in accordance with the research objective. Results reveals that “Trust”, “Commitment”, “Relationship Strength” and “Service Quality” has significant positive relationship with customer loyalty. Recommendations to retailers and suggestions for future study are provided at the end of this paper.
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spelling intimal-7002017-03-02T04:51:04Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/700/ Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry Phua, Tin Chew HD28 Management. Industrial Management In today market, organizations from retail industry are fighting for survival in today’s intense market place. Such dynamic challenges placed loyalty customer as an important asset to maintain the retail store’s success. Thus, the strategies that retailers using to build and to maintain the relationship with customers are extremely important. Therefore, this research is conducted to evaluate the link between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian retailing industry. Based on a detailed literature review, research constructs and a proposed model is developed. A quota sampling methodology, questionnaire survey is conducted to target 400 respondents from Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya and Klang. The SPSS 17.0 is employed to test the hypotheses in accordance with the research objective. Results reveals that “Trust”, “Commitment”, “Relationship Strength” and “Service Quality” has significant positive relationship with customer loyalty. Recommendations to retailers and suggestions for future study are provided at the end of this paper. 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/700/1/95.pdf Phua, Tin Chew (2012) Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry. Masters thesis, INTI International University.
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Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry
title Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry
title_full Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry
title_fullStr Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry
title_short Evaluating the Links between Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in the Malaysian Retailing Industry
title_sort evaluating the links between relationship marketing and customer loyalty in the malaysian retailing industry
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
url http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/700/
http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/700/1/95.pdf