An Empirical study of the association among Service Quality Customer Satisfaction, and Loyalty on Container Shipping — Based on Examples of the Branch of a Foreign Carrier in Taiwan / 定期貨櫃航運服務品質與顧客滿意度及忠誠度關聯性之實證研究─以某外商在台分公司為對象

碩士 / 國立臺灣科技大學 / 企業管理系 / 96 / Abstracts
Under the severe comopetition in the shipping market, most carriers, in order to increase their market share, have taken the policies of ordering bigger ships, merger and acquisition, or alliance as growth strategy. And in light of the trend of economical globalization together with global businsess logistics, global companies have continuously outsourced their producst in the lower labour cost countries for the sake of cost-cutting.

Taiwan businessmen, under this kind of trend and reform policy of PRC, have continued to move their manufactories out of Taiwan for maintaining competitive advantages in the past years. More worst, accompanied by the opening market after joining WTO, Taiwan export volume has gradually decreased. Under the most severe competion and overcapacity markt, most carriers have taken “ rate-cutting “ as the only competitive measure for increasing market share. However, as the operational costs ( such as, bunker and railway costs ) increased sharply yearly, “ pricing “ advantage can not work well any more. Thus, how to provide the differential and innovative service for maintaining sustainable advantage instead of “ pricing “ policy to explore business is the best strategy for carriers to grow under the severe competition.

This study takes the branch for a foreign container shipping company as an empirical study, and classfies the service quality into 4 determinants and 21 attributes to explore the association of service quality, customer satisfaction and loyalty through in-depth interview. The result shows:
1. Container shipping company’s service quality has a significant influence on customer satisfaction.
2. Container shipping company’s service quality has a significant influence on customer loyalty.
3. Container shipping company’s customer satisfaction has a significant influence on customer loyalty.

Based on the outcomes of the study, suggestions were provided for shipping company management to maintain cross-trade service, effect customer satisfaction survery and increase employee satisfaction for strengthening customer loyalty.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096NTUS5121003
Date January 2007
CreatorsTean_Yuan Lee, 李燦元
ContributorsWu Couchen, 吳克振
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format79

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