Examining the Effects of Service Quality and Corporate Reputation of Liner Shipping Companies on Trust, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty / 定期航運公司服務品質與企業聲譽對信任、顧客滿意度與忠誠度之影響

碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 航運管理學系 / 99 / Maintaining or increasing customer’s satisfaction and loyalty are important issues for most industries. For liner shipping companies, these two issues are more critical as most shippers are frequent users and the unused space on the ships cannot be reserved for successive voyages. The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants influence the customer’s satisfaction and loyalty toward liners.
A novelty research model comprising five constructs is established. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is applied to examine the constructs and validate hypotheses. The results of the empirical study indicate that the corporate reputation of liners significantly affecting service quality, trust, and customers’ satisfaction. In addition, service quality of liners will significantly affect trust, and customers’ satisfaction. Meantime, customers’ satisfaction will significantly affect customers’ loyalty. The process and results of this study are organized and presented in this thesis as reference for the practitioners and future research.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099NTOU5301011
Date January 2011
CreatorsCheng-Wang Tang, 湯正旺
ContributorsShih-Liang Chao, 趙時樑
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format59

Page generated in 0.0022 seconds