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Building customer trust and loyalty: an empirical study in a retailing context

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  • Pi-Chuan Sun
  • Chia-Min Lin

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This paper integrates the seller's characteristics and the consumer's individual characteristics in testing the person-to-person and person-to-firm effects of trust on loyalty in the department store. A multidimensional model of the behavioural components of trustworthiness is used to examine their differential effects on consumer trust. The results reveal that the effects of behavioural components of trustworthiness on trust in salespersons and trust in department stores are different. Trust in salespersons contributes to the trust in the department stores they work for. In addition, although both trust in department stores and trust in salespersons are expected to enhance customer loyalty, person-to-person trust has stronger influence on loyalty than does person-to-firm trust. The findings also suggest that customers' individual characteristics should be considered in assessing the role of trust in business relationships other than sellers' characteristics.

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  • Pi-Chuan Sun & Chia-Min Lin, 2008. "Building customer trust and loyalty: an empirical study in a retailing context," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(9), pages 1439-1455, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:30:y:2008:i:9:p:1439-1455
    DOI: 10.1080/02642060802621478
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