Numerous studies have shown customer satisfaction to be the crucial antecedent of perhaps the most important constructs in marketing – loyalty and customer retention. However the satisfaction→customer retention linkage is not as simple as it might first seem. This study examines the impact...

Purpose – While numerous published works have extensively examined customer retention models and even motives for loyalty, none to date has systematically examined which consumer segments are more or less predisposed to exhibit loyal behaviour in a services context. The purpose of this study...

Because service encounters and service relationships are first and foremost social encounters, norms and expectations related to such encounters are likely to vary from culture to culture, but especially between high context Eastern, collectivist and low context, Western individualistic...

Cross-disciplinary research recognises humour as an effective communication tool for fostering engagement and positive interpersonal relationships, although inappropriate use can create negative outcomes. Drawing on positive psychology, this study aims to empirically examine the extent to which...