The usefulness of loyalty as a construct for understanding and analysing the market for banking services is here discussed. Using empirical data, the socio‐demographic, attitudinal and behavioural characteristics of loyal versus non‐loyal bank patrons are described. Bank loyalty can be measured and is useful in explaining differences in banking skills, expected benefits and attitudes towards banks and level of utilisation of banking services.
Consumers are often faced with the question of what to do with objects that are still usable but not worth selling and for which they no longer have a use. Our paper shows that some consumers have a tendency to keep them rather than dispose of them. Two qualitative studies and nine quantitative studies were conducted to analyze this recurring behavior and to propose a consumer hoarding scale composed of four dimensions (instrumental, social, economic and sentimental). We show that this hoarding tendency may hinder the product replacement process: hoarders are likely to postpone the decision to replace a product if they do not know what to do with the one they currently own.
Les consommateurs doivent fréquemment prendre une décision concernant des produits encore utilisables mais dont ils n'ont plus l'utilité et qui ne valent pas, à leurs yeux, la peine d'être revendus. Cet article montre que certains consommateurs ont tendance à les garder au lieu de s'en débarrasser. Deux études qualitatives et neuf études quantitatives ont permis d'analyser ce comportement récurrent et de proposer une échelle de tendance à « tout » garder composée de quatre dimensions (instrumentale, sociale, économique et sentimentale). Nous montrons que cette tendance peut être un frein lors du processus de remplacement des produits: un consommateur qui a tendance à « tout » garder risque de repousser cette décision de remplacement s'il ne sait pas quoi faire du produit remplacé.
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