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Determining the Role of Service Quality, Trust, and Commitment to Customer Loyalty for Telecom Service Users: A PLS‐SEM Approach

Authors

KALIA Prateek KAUSHAL Robin SINGLA Meenu PARKASH Jai

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source The TQM Journal
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Web https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/TQM-04-2021-0108/full/html
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/TQM-04-2021-0108
Keywords Service quality; Trust; Commitment; Customer loyalty; Telecom; India
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Description Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of service quality (SQ), trust and commitment to customer loyalty (CL) for telecom service users. Further, the moderating role of gender, marital status and connection type within the model was tested. Design/methodology/approach – A measurement model was created based on valid 615 responses from Indian TSUs for SQ, trust, commitment and loyalty with the help of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Multi-group analysis (MGA) was conducted to understand the moderating effect of marital status, gender and connection type within the model. Findings – The results suggest that, out of five dimensions of SQ, only responsiveness, assurance and empathy have a significant positive relationship with both commitment and trust. Tangibility has a significant positive relationship with trust only. Both commitment and trust have a significant impact on loyalty. It was noticed that both commitment and trust act as mediators between three SQ dimensions (assurance, empathy and responsiveness) and CL. MGA revealed that empathy and responsiveness positively induce trust in telecom users who are single. Whereas, assurance increases commitment toward telecom service providers in married users. Assurance and empathy significantly contribute toward commitment and trust, respectively, in male users as compared to females. Empathy was found important for postpaid users for trust-building, whereas trust was found to be more important for prepaid users to stay loyal to the service provider. Originality/value – This article contributes toward understanding the role of SQ, trust and commitment to CL moderated by marital status, gender and connection type in an integrated model concerning telecom service

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