An Examination of Repurchase Intentions of the Corporate Segment Customers' from Their Main Bank within the Scope of Customer Satisfaction, Trust, and Switching Barriers
Abstract
It is becoming more and more important for banks to be able to deepen in their existing customers as well as preserve their number of customers together with the contraction in recent years in world and Turkish economy. At this point, the banks' ability to preserve the advantages and opportunities they have thanks to being the main bank of their customers is a necessity of difficult conditions. Therefore, the aim of the study is to reveal the repurchase intentions of the customers in corporate segment towards their main banks within the scope of customer satisfaction, trust, switching costs, interpersonal relationships, and attractiveness of alternatives. In line with this purpose, data was collected from 252 corporate segment bank customers located in Ankara through an on-line questionnaire, and Structural Equation Modeling was used to investigate the relationships between the variables. Analysis results show that the satisfaction of corporate segment customers regarding the service they receive from their main banks and their interpersonal relations with their main banks positively affect their repurchase intentions from their main banks. Customers' trust toward their main banks, perceived switching costs and attractive offers from alternative banks do not affect customers' repurchase intentions from their main banks. In addition, customers' trust toward the bank positively affects customers' satisfaction regarding the service they receive from their main banks. Finally, while switching costs perceived by corporate customers towards their main banks do not affect the repurchase intention towards their main banks, switching costs reinforce the relationship between customer satisfaction and repurchase intentions.
Keywords
Customer Satisfaction, Trust, Repurchase Intentions, Interpersonal Relationship, Switching Costs, Alternatives Attributes
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