Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model

Consumers’ loyalty has been viewed as a critical success factor for any business firms. The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of service quality attributes on consumers’ loyalty of healthcare insurance products. This study also seeks to determine if consumer's perceived value an...

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Main Author: Ahmad Abdel Fattah, Fadi Abdel Muniem
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spelling my-mmu-ep.63512016-08-24T08:27:27Z Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model 2016-03 Ahmad Abdel Fattah, Fadi Abdel Muniem HF5410-5417.5 Marketing. Distribution of products Consumers’ loyalty has been viewed as a critical success factor for any business firms. The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of service quality attributes on consumers’ loyalty of healthcare insurance products. This study also seeks to determine if consumer's perceived value and consumer's satisfaction mediate the relationship. In addition, consumers switching behaviour intention is hypothesised to moderate the relationship between consomer satisfaction and consumers’ loyalty. This research is a cross-sectional study, using a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 525 usable returns were recived the cut-off date. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach was used to analyse and test relationships among variables. The results show that consumer's satisfaction mediates the relationship between two service quality attributes (functional quality and technical quality) and consumers’ loyalty. However perceived value only mediates the relationship between firm’s image and consumers’ loyalty. 2016-03 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/6351/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Graduate School of Management
institution Multimedia University
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topic HF5410-5417.5 Marketing
Distribution of products
spellingShingle HF5410-5417.5 Marketing
Distribution of products
Ahmad Abdel Fattah, Fadi Abdel Muniem
Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model
description Consumers’ loyalty has been viewed as a critical success factor for any business firms. The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of service quality attributes on consumers’ loyalty of healthcare insurance products. This study also seeks to determine if consumer's perceived value and consumer's satisfaction mediate the relationship. In addition, consumers switching behaviour intention is hypothesised to moderate the relationship between consomer satisfaction and consumers’ loyalty. This research is a cross-sectional study, using a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 525 usable returns were recived the cut-off date. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach was used to analyse and test relationships among variables. The results show that consumer's satisfaction mediates the relationship between two service quality attributes (functional quality and technical quality) and consumers’ loyalty. However perceived value only mediates the relationship between firm’s image and consumers’ loyalty.
format Thesis
qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level Doctorate
author Ahmad Abdel Fattah, Fadi Abdel Muniem
author_facet Ahmad Abdel Fattah, Fadi Abdel Muniem
author_sort Ahmad Abdel Fattah, Fadi Abdel Muniem
title Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model
title_short Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model
title_full Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model
title_fullStr Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model
title_full_unstemmed Consumers’ Loyalty on Healthcare Insurance Products: Service Quality and Consumer Satisfaction Embedded Model
title_sort consumers’ loyalty on healthcare insurance products: service quality and consumer satisfaction embedded model
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Graduate School of Management
publishDate 2016
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