This study explores the determinants of customer loyalty in the Korean mobile telecommunications market with the emphasis on customer satisfaction and switching costs as major predictors of customer loyalty. South Korea has now become one of the world’s most leading mobile service markets with...

The burgeoning app economy increasingly drives growth in today's service sector. We study a dataset encompassing apps' daily, weekly, and monthly usership time series and show how its nested-echelon structure allows researchers to reliably infer how and when an app's customers adopt, use, and...

In this paper we investigate the mediating role of psychosocial benefits in the customersatisfaction/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with thecausality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction, sometimes preceded by anoverall functional benefit...

Sogenannte Self-Service-Technologien (SST), wie Bankautomaten, automatischer Self-Checkout in Hotels, Telefonbanking und Dienstleistungen, die der Kunde über das Internet bezieht (z.B. Onlinebanking) werden in den letzten Jahren zunehmend von Unternehmen genutzt, um den kostenintensiven,...