Title :
The effect of long-term customer satisfaction on customer purchase intention
Author :
Chang, P.L. ; Hsiao, C.T. ; Huang, H.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bus. Adm., Feng Chia Univ., Taichung
Abstract :
As a result of globalization and the advent of the era meager profit, operating profit becomes the striving goal of enterprises. The automotive industry is as a path to technological and economic developments. When the car manufacturing got matured, marketing and after services are the main sources to increase profits. The selling trend of Taiwanese automotive market is mainly through regional automobile dealers. It plays the roles for both marketing and after-sale maintenance services. This study analyses the profit structure of the automobile regional dealers in Taiwan to explore the system behavior using system dynamics methodology. The research results show: To enhance long-term customer satisfaction is the key factor for regional automobile dealers to acquire profits.
Keywords :
automobile industry; customer satisfaction; globalisation; market research; sales management; Taiwanese automotive market; after sale maintenance services; automotive industry; customer purchase intention; economic development; globalization; long term customer satisfaction; operating profit; system dynamics methodology; technological development; Automobile manufacture; Automotive engineering; Customer satisfaction; Environmental economics; Globalization; Industrial economics; Manufacturing industries; Marketing and sales; Profitability; Vehicle dynamics; Long-term customer satisfaction; automobile regional dealer; system dynamics;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2329-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2330-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654465