Intense competition from alternative financial service providers and evolving customer expectations have presented formidable challenges to the banking sector's quest for customer retention and profitability. On this account, this paper delves into the dynamics of customer satisfaction in the...

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of a housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. In...