2004
DOI: 10.1108/09604520410513668
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Customer satisfaction and retention: the experiences of individual employees

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore how the employees of a company experience the concepts of customer satisfaction and retention. A phenomenological method was used, allowing the informants’ own interpretations to be discovered. Satisfaction was discussed from three perspectives: definition of the concept, how to recognise when a customer is satisfied, and how to enhance satisfaction. The informants’ experience pertaining to these three categories varied, and a total of seven ways to define, recognise or… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
1
1
1

Citation Types

3
173
0
10

Year Published

2012
2012
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
6
3
1

Relationship

0
10

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 308 publications
(186 citation statements)
references
References 26 publications
3
173
0
10
Order By: Relevance
“…More satisfied customers tend to be loyal and are more inclined to producing several benefits to organization [28], [29]. Repeat service always generates income and costs are lower in comparison to the process of acquiring new customers.…”
Section: Quality Of Service and Customer Satisfactionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More satisfied customers tend to be loyal and are more inclined to producing several benefits to organization [28], [29]. Repeat service always generates income and costs are lower in comparison to the process of acquiring new customers.…”
Section: Quality Of Service and Customer Satisfactionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Study entrenched trust as an important precursor of customer loyalty (Akbar and Parvez, 2009). Satisfaction is generally defined as customer attitude toward a service provider, or, more specifically, an emotional response to the concordance between what customers anticipate and what they receive in fulfillment of a purchase (Hansemark and Albinsson, 2004). Conversely, customer loyalty refers to a profoundly held commitment to re-buy a preferred service or product in the future in spite of situational influences or competitor marketing efforts that could reasonably cause switching behavior (Oliver, 2014).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In today's society of intense competition, customer satisfaction has been the major goal of firms since it affects the customer retention and the firm's market share (Hansemark andAlbinsson, 2004 andBjork, 2015). Khan and Rizwon (2014) see satisfaction as the factor through which customer measures how much his needs desires have been met or exceeded.…”
Section: Customer Satisfactionmentioning
confidence: 99%