Purpose of This Paper This paper examines call center satisfaction in an escalated call center context where callers are organization members of the primary/leveraged brand and have purchased additional co-branded services as part of their membership. The relationship between call center...

Customer loyalty is one of the most important strategic objectives of managers globally. Research has investigated the relationship between customer satisfaction and loyalty in a variety of contexts. These predominantly cross-sectional studies however have focused on customer retention as the...

Empirical studies in marketing conceptualize commitment as a three-component construct comprised of affective, normative, and calculative commitment. We develop and empirically test a five-component typology of consumer commitment — affective, normative, economic, forced, and habitual...