The Relationship of Perceived Service Quality and Brand Loyalty: A Research on Bus Companies Making Intercity Passenger Transportation Cover Image

Algılanan Hizmet Kalitesi İle Marka Bağlılığı İlişkisi Şehirlerarası Yolcu Taşımacılığı Yapan Otobüs Firmaları Üzerine Bir Araştırma
The Relationship of Perceived Service Quality and Brand Loyalty: A Research on Bus Companies Making Intercity Passenger Transportation

Author(s): Salih Memiş, Zafer Cesur
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Marketing / Advertising, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Brand loyalty; Service quality; Passenger transportation;

Summary/Abstract: Businesses aim to get a competitive advantage in order to create brand loyalty by developing various strategies differentiating from their rivals. One of the most important elements of getting a competitive advantage is the fact that a quality of product is able to be created. As quality case causes different perceptions from person to person, its measurement is not easy. Understanding and measuring the quality concept is more difficult especially for the businesses are in the service sector than the businesses producing physical products. This study surveys the relationship between service quality and brand loyalty. According to the study results applied on 552 customer in the sector of passenger transportation, the fact that positive change in the perceived service quality affects (increases) brand loyalty and its level has been determined.

  • Issue Year: 14/2016
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 453-484
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Turkish