This paper investigates the relationship between service quality, customer satisfaction, and repurchase intentions in the area of mobile communication services. This paper included two empirical researches based on theoretical background.
The theoret...
This paper investigates the relationship between service quality, customer satisfaction, and repurchase intentions in the area of mobile communication services. This paper included two empirical researches based on theoretical background.
The theoretical background begins with the investigation of concepts of service quality and customer satisfaction. To build the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction, this paper compares between SERVQUAL which Parasuraman, Berry, and Zeithaml (1985, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1994)suggested, and SERVPERF which Cronin and Taylor(1992,1994) made by criticizing SERVQUAL, and supports that a performance-based measure of service quality may be an improved means of measuring service quality.
This paper emphasizes two empirical investiagations. The first empirical research is the investigation of the relationship between service quality, customer satisfaction, and repurchase intentions in the area of mobile communication services. LISREL analysis is used, and the following relationships are found ; Service quality is an antecedent of customer satisfaction. Customers' perceptions of service quality affect their repurchase intentions, and customer satisfaction has a significant effect on repurchase intentions.
The second empirical research is designed in the dynamic market situation to investigate the relationship between customer satisfaction and repurchase intention, which analyzes consumer response to both new mobile communication services and products. Mobile communication market is high-technological one which is expected huge market potential like the IMT-2000. Main research methods for the second empirical research were regression, analysis of variance, factor analysis, and chi-square analysis.
The result of the second empirical research shows that recommendation intentions are much stronger than repurchase intentions. It makes us know the importance of word-of-mouth communication. In the high technological area like mobile communication service and products, the speed of the emergence of new technology is fast, and consumer response is so sensitive to new one. Consumer awareness of technological advances can influence repurchase or switching intentions. Switching intentions are much stronger in visible products than invisible services in the dynamic market with strong competitive strength. It means that it is necessary to have different strategy between service company and product company. It is better for service company to emphasize repurchase behavior, and it is better for product company to consider switching behavior.
The ever-increasing magnitude of the mobile communication market requires that managers and researchers increase the attention directed at the important issues in the diffusion of new services and products.
A better understanding of the relationship between service quality, customer satisfaction, and repurchase intentions in the dynamic market can complement researches on the adoptions of new services and help in the development of a universal model of this area.
It is necessary to do future researches about the dynamic relationship between service quality, customer satisfaction, and repurchase intentions by establishing the more technology-intensive and more competitive situation, because mobile communication service market becomes more technology-intensive and competitive. In addition, this paper suggests to do future researches about cross-cultural comparision between Korea, Japan, and the United States and to connect this research to competitive advantage of industries and nations