• DocumentCode
    2178941
  • Title

    An Empirical Study of Influence Factors in Customer Loyalty for Department Store Service

  • Author

    Meimei Zhang ; Haibin Peng

  • Author_Institution
    North China Electr. Power Univ., Baoding, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    24-26 Aug. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The paper has done an empirical study in five large department stores of Baoding to explore the mechanism of influencing factors on customer loyalty. This study finds that traffic facilities, product value, reputation factor, Consumer individual factor, service function quality and shopping environment are six main dimensions in customer loyalty influencing dimensions.And then, taking Baoding department store and supermarket as an example, a factor extraction model based on Support Vector Machines for classification (SVC) is constructed. Experiments show scale of park, having shopping card of this store and product breed is the important ones on customer loyalty.
  • Keywords
    customer satisfaction; pattern classification; retailing; service industries; support vector machines; SVM classification; consumer individual factor dimension; customer loyalty; department store service; factor extraction model; product value dimension; reputation factor dimension; service function quality dimension; shopping environment dimension; support vector machines; traffic facility dimension; Classification algorithms; Indexes; Industries; Organizations; Static VAr compensators; Testing; Training;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management and Service Science (MASS), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5325-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5326-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSS.2010.5577406
  • Filename
    5577406