Abstract

This paper reveals that service quality and corporate image are not important factors for customer delight and loyalty. This research is motivated by the desire to measure the importance of service quality and corporate image to customer delight and company loyalty. Insights on various literatures have provided an explanation, there is a tendency for service quality and corporate image to affect customer delight which in turn will affect loyalty. The important idea is to show the importance of service quality and corporate image to customer delight and customer loyalty, which means that the better the service quality and corporate image, the more customer delight will increase, which in turn will increase customer loyalty. This study uses customer data at one bank but they are also customers of other banks in Bali. A type of quantitative research, using a pre-existing measurement scale with a PLS-based SEM analysis tool. Customers do need quality service and a good corporate image. This finding is proven by the better the service quality and corporate image, the more customer delight will increase, the higher the, the higher customer delight the loyalty. Customer delight perfectly mediates the relationship between service quality and corporate image, which means that through the mediation of customer delight, service quality and corporate image affect customer loyalty. Service quality and corporate image in banking must be able to create customer delight so that customer loyalty increases.

Highlights

  • Banks are financial institutions whose main activity is to collect funds and channel them back to the community and provide other bank services (Kasmir, 2014: 14)

  • The Phenomena and research gaps that have been described provide clear directions regarding the formulation of research problems at BPD Bali Gajah Mada Main Branch, Denpasar, namely: What is service quality and corporate image have a positive effect on customer delight? What is service quality and corporate image affect customer loyalty? What is customer delight have a direct positive effect on customer loyalty? What is the role of customer delight in mediating the effect of service quality and corporate image on customer loyalty at Bank BPD Gajah Mada Main Branch, Denpasar?

  • Many studies with different sample backgrounds have proven that service quality has a positive influence on Customer delight as stated by (Rahim Mosahab and Osman Ahamad (2010), Hafeez et al (2012), Munawar et al 2014) which states that service quality has a positive and significant effect on customer satisfaction

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Banks are financial institutions whose main activity is to collect funds and channel them back to the community and provide other bank services (Kasmir, 2014: 14) With this very competitive condition, the quality of service to customers is very important, which can form a positive image so that customer delight increases, which in turn will lead to loyalty. The Phenomena and research gaps that have been described provide clear directions regarding the formulation of research problems at BPD Bali Gajah Mada Main Branch, Denpasar, namely: What is service quality and corporate image have a positive effect on customer delight? What is the role of customer delight in mediating the effect of service quality and corporate image on customer loyalty at Bank BPD Gajah Mada Main Branch, Denpasar? The Phenomena and research gaps that have been described provide clear directions regarding the formulation of research problems at BPD Bali Gajah Mada Main Branch, Denpasar, namely: What is service quality and corporate image have a positive effect on customer delight? What is service quality and corporate image affect customer loyalty? What is customer delight have a direct positive effect on customer loyalty? What is the role of customer delight in mediating the effect of service quality and corporate image on customer loyalty at Bank BPD Gajah Mada Main Branch, Denpasar?

LITERATURE REVIEW
HYPOTHESES
H2: Image has a positive and significant effect on customer delight
H3: Service quality has a positive and significant effect on loyalty customer
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
CONCLUSION
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