Customer relationship development in hedonic and utilitarian services
Stathopoulou, Anastasia and Balabanis, G. (2015) Customer relationship development in hedonic and utilitarian services. In: Robinson Jr., L. (ed.) Marketing Dynamism & Sustainability: Things Change, Things Stay the Same…. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. New York, U.S.: Springer, pp. 394-397. ISBN 9783319109114.
Abstract
It is widely accepted that customer relationships are important to the profitability of a company. Especially, customer relationship development drivers such as customer loyalty, word of mouth, share of wallet and duration of the relationship are critical factors in increasing profitability and creating long-term relationships between the organization and the customer (e.g. Garbarino & Johnson, 1999). In the service based context, those variables act as the crucial glue in developing relationships, because of the service intangibility and complexity (Day, 1999). It has been recognised that the nature of customer relationship variables are polymorphous and is influenced by the nature of services. However, the moderating effect of the type of service on customer relationships has not been clearly addressed by academic research. This paper is going to examine the link between customers’ attitudes and behaviours based on the moderating effect of hedonic and utilitarian services. It has been argued that the hedonic-utilitarian dichotomy is one the most important dichotomies in services marketing (e.g. Jones, Reynolds & Arnold, 2006). Propositions from the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) are used as a theoretical platform to examine intentions to repurchase from the same service provider. The paper tries to address some of the criticisms of the TPB and to extend it in the context of services marketing and customer relationships. As the service contexts are heterogeneous in different ways the paper examines how variations of services on the hedonic and utilitarian dimension alter some of the theoretical propositions.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Proceedings of the 2012 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Series ISSN: 2363-6165 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | Anastasia Stathopoulou |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2017 17:02 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18057 |
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