User-driven Customization and Customer Loyalty: A Survey
User-driven Customization and Customer Loyalty: A Survey
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用户驱动的定制和客户忠诚度:调查
DOI:
10.1016/j.procir.2017.02.013
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
R. Schmitt
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作者:
A. Fels;B. Falk;R. Schmitt
For companies, customer loyalty is one of the main goals to ensure long-term success. However, it is not completely resolved which mechanism stimulates customers to repurchase the same product or same brand respectively, repurchase being an important aspect of loyalty. The customer's level of satisfaction with a product is an adequate indicator for customer loyalty, but is seen as not fully sufficient. Rather, the emotional attachment of a customer with a product or brand may be crucial for his loyalty. Amongst others, the emotional attachment or sentiment of connection can be encouraged through the active participation of the customer in the development and configuration process of the product in terms of a co-creation. The customer can be put in the position of a co-designer throughout the whole development and buying process. Yet, no literature was found investigating whether customization in the use phase of a product -as a post-purchase configuration- equally leads to an emotional attachment and renders the product a personal item. Supposedly, a customized product triggers customers to 1) keep a current product longer and therefore postpone the moment of perceived obsolescence and 2) rebuy the same product or brand respectively significantly more often.To respond to the corresponding research questions, a questionnaire was developed and distributed online via email and popular social media platforms. Subject to the questionnaire were smartphones as everyday objects. The participants answered to question items regarding their customization habits of software as well as hardware components, their usual repurchase frequency of smartphones and preferred product/brand. The data was analyzed for statistical relations between customization and repurchase behavior; implications for product life-cycles and potentials for producing companies were discussed.
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