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Howard W. Combs

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2011

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A Servperf Model Of The Vietnamese Banking Industry, Quoc Cuong Nguyen, Sirion Chaipoopirutana, Howard W. Combs Jan 2011

A Servperf Model Of The Vietnamese Banking Industry, Quoc Cuong Nguyen, Sirion Chaipoopirutana, Howard W. Combs

Howard W. Combs

Customer loyalty is an important factor which has a significant effect on the profitability of the firm. The cost of keeping an existing customer to stay with the firm is much lower than the cost of acquiring a new customer. The purpose of this research is to build and test a model of factors effecting customer loyalty in Vietnamese banking industry. The data was obtained by distributing questionnaire to 400 bank customers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM). The results indicated that customer loyalty is positively and significantly influenced by perceived service quality …


Effective Customer Relationship Management Of Health Care: A Study Of Hospitals In Thailand, Howard W. Combs, B. Laohasirichaikul, S. Chaipoopirutana Jan 2011

Effective Customer Relationship Management Of Health Care: A Study Of Hospitals In Thailand, Howard W. Combs, B. Laohasirichaikul, S. Chaipoopirutana

Howard W. Combs

This article investigates the effects and the relative importance of the four perceived service quality dimensions on corporate image, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. To obtain results, factor analysis and multiple regression techniques are applied to data collected from 500 Thai outpatients of the five largest private hospitals in Bangkok. The findings indicate that the four dimensions significantly affect corporate image, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. More specifically, the doctor concern dimension is the most important factor affecting customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. The tangibles dimension is the most important factor affecting corporate image.