Relational Benefits in Services Industries: The Customer's Perspective
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Investing time, effort, and other resources creates psychological bonds and cultivates mutual understanding, trust, satisfaction, and commitment.
“Investing time, effort, and other resources create psychological bonds (De Wulf et al. 2001) and cultivate mutual understanding, trust, satisfaction, and commitment (e.g., Gwinner et al. 1998; Palmatier et al. 2009).”
From Understanding and managing customer relational benefits in services: a meta-analysis (2020) · cites this paper as Gwinner et al. 1998
An overwhelming majority of studies examine relational benefits as antecedents of customer loyalty, though Gwinner et al. (1998) originally conceptualized them as a consequence of customers' demonstrations of loyalty.
“An overwhelming majority of studies examine relational benefits as antecedents of customer loyalty (e.g., Hennig-Thurau et al. 2002), though Gwinner et al. (1998) originally conceptualized them as a consequence of customers' demonstrations of loyalty.”
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- Authors
- Gwinner, K. P., Gremler, D. D., & Bitner, M. J.
- Affiliations
- East Carolina University (US)
- University of Idaho (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
- Published
- 1998-04-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 101-114
- ISSN
- 0092-0703 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2097829847
- Cited by
- 2,347
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 60.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Academy of Marketing
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Service and Product Innovation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Keywords
- relationship benefits, customer relationships, service sector, consumer confidence, social benefits, special treatment benefits, service companies
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