Enhancing loyalty: when improving consumer satisfaction and delight matters

Ahrholdt, Dennis C., Gudergan, Siegfried P., and Ringle, Christian M. (2019) Enhancing loyalty: when improving consumer satisfaction and delight matters. Journal of Business Research, 94. pp. 18-27.

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Abstract

Prior research has validated the importance of consumer delight and satisfaction for explaining consumer loyalty. This study extends our existing knowledge of how delight and satisfaction affect (in a nonlinear way) consumer loyalty. It explains a negative quadratic relationship between satisfaction and loyalty intentions, as well as a negative cubic relationship between delight and loyalty intentions. Contrary to satisfaction, delight unfolds its full impact at lower levels, but only after a threshold level is exceeded. Like satisfaction, the delight effect becomes saturated at very high levels. Furthermore, both delight and satisfaction effects weaken with increased prior consumption experiences. Thus, when they invest in delight and satisfaction, managers should consider their individual marginal impacts on loyalty and distinguish between consumers with reference to their prior consumption experiences.

Item ID: 70781
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1873-7978
Keywords: Delight, Loyalty, Nonlinear effects, PLS-SEM, Prior consumption experience, Satisfaction
Copyright Information: Pubished Version: © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The Author Accepted Version may be made open access in an Institutional Repository under a CC BY-NC-ND license after a 36 month embargo.
Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2022 23:56
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