of Customer Repatronage Intentions
Both service quality and customer satisfaction have been widely recognised as antecedents
of repurchase intentions. However, it is believed that restaurant owners would like to know
which of these variables exerts the strongest influence on re-patronage intentions. A recent
study reveals that customer satisfaction is a better predictor of intentions to repurchase than
service quality (Ravald and Gronroos, 1996). Evidence is provided by Cronin and Taylor
(1992) who found a much stronger relationship between customer satisfaction and
repurchase intentions than the relationship between service quality and repurchase intentions.
Academically, from a practitioner’s point of view, customer satisfaction is deemed to be
more influential on repurchase intentions (Dabholkar, 1995). Parasuraman, Zeithaml and
Berry (1994) also revealed in their analyses that customer satisfaction is likely to achieve a
greater level of statistical significance when both service quality and customer satisfaction
have a significant effect on repurchase intentions.
H3: Customer satisfaction will be a stronger predictor of customer’s repatronage
intention than service quality.
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