Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in Vietnam

Switching cost highlights the way how companies create barriers to proactively prevent customer defection which directly and significantly affects customer loyalty and then companies’ performance. The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidences about the impact of switching cost on custo...

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Main Authors: Vu Minh Ngo, Drahomíra Pavelková
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Language:English
Published: Centre of Sociological Research, Szczecin 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of International Studies
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description Switching cost highlights the way how companies create barriers to proactively prevent customer defection which directly and significantly affects customer loyalty and then companies’ performance. The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidences about the impact of switching cost on customer loyalty by examining its mediating and moderating effects on the relationships between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Specially, two difference types of switching costs, positive one and negative one, are proposed and tested independently in order to provide more insights about their impacts. The data about switching costs and other constructs are collected from 261 retail banking customers, and analysed using structural equation modelling and moderated path analysis. It is found that positive switching costs increase customer loyalty by partly transforming the effect of service value and customer satisfaction into customer loyalty. While negative switching cost only mediates the service value-loyalty relationship. Moreover, only negative switching cost has significant moderating effect on the satisfaction-loyalty relationships. Finally, the analysis reveals that negative switching cost might also weaken good impacts from positive switching cost on satisfaction-loyalty relationships.
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spelling doaj-art-ec711f9e06f240b2a4e833c335dd32ca2025-08-20T02:21:49ZengCentre of Sociological Research, SzczecinJournal of International Studies2071-83302306-34832017-05-0110110.14254/2071-8330.2017/10-1/1Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in VietnamVu Minh Ngo0Drahomíra Pavelková1Tomas Bata University in ZlínTomas Bata University in ZlínSwitching cost highlights the way how companies create barriers to proactively prevent customer defection which directly and significantly affects customer loyalty and then companies’ performance. The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidences about the impact of switching cost on customer loyalty by examining its mediating and moderating effects on the relationships between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Specially, two difference types of switching costs, positive one and negative one, are proposed and tested independently in order to provide more insights about their impacts. The data about switching costs and other constructs are collected from 261 retail banking customers, and analysed using structural equation modelling and moderated path analysis. It is found that positive switching costs increase customer loyalty by partly transforming the effect of service value and customer satisfaction into customer loyalty. While negative switching cost only mediates the service value-loyalty relationship. Moreover, only negative switching cost has significant moderating effect on the satisfaction-loyalty relationships. Finally, the analysis reveals that negative switching cost might also weaken good impacts from positive switching cost on satisfaction-loyalty relationships.http://jois.eu/?309,en_moderating-and-mediating-effects-of-switching-costs-on-the-relationship-between-service-value-customer-satisfaction-and-customer-loyalty-investigation-of-retail-banking-in-vietnamcustomer satisfactionservice qualityservice valuecustomer loyaltypositive switching costsnegative switching costs
spellingShingle Vu Minh Ngo
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Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in Vietnam
Journal of International Studies
customer satisfaction
service quality
service value
customer loyalty
positive switching costs
negative switching costs
title Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in Vietnam
title_full Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in Vietnam
title_fullStr Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in Vietnam
title_short Moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: investigation of retail banking in Vietnam
title_sort moderating and mediating effects of switching costs on the relationship between service value customer satisfaction and customer loyalty investigation of retail banking in vietnam
topic customer satisfaction
service quality
service value
customer loyalty
positive switching costs
negative switching costs
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