Corporate‐customer satisfaction in the banking industry of Singapore
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by Emerald in International Journal of Bank Marketing
- Vol. 18 (3), 97-111
- https://doi.org/10.1108/02652320010339617
Abstract
Extends the current understanding of customer satisfaction at the business-to-business level in the Asian banking industry. The main thrust of the paper is an attempt to conceptualise a comprehensive model of satisfaction at the business-to-business level incorporating guanxi (Chinese business relationships), relationship marketing and the disconfirmation paradigm. The essence of the research highlighted the importance of relational constructs, in addition to the disconfirmation paradigm, in impacting customer satisfaction at the business-to-business level in the Singapore banking industry. At the business-to-business level in the Asian context, the disconfirmation paradigm is still the predominant paradigm influencing the customer satisfaction process. Relationship marketing and guanxi are significant in our comprehensive model of corporate-customer satisfaction. Relationship marketing was found to have both a direct and an indirect impact (through disconfirmation) on corporate-customer satisfaction. Guanxi was found to exert an indirect impact on satisfaction as opposed to the initial hypothesised direct impact on satisfaction.Keywords
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