Incorporating Attitude towards Islamic Banking in an integrated Service Quality, Satisfaction, Trust and Loyalty Model

Abstract

The Islamic banking is an emerging concept and has gained valuable acceptance not only in the Islamic countries but all over the world and has a visible growth. The purpose to conduct the current study is to empirically check the effect of consumer attitude towards Islamic banking on the customer’s perceived service quality regarding banking services and customer satisfaction with banking services. The proposed research model also investigate the relationships among variables like perceived service quality, customer satisfaction, customer trust and customer loyalty. A survey questionnaire was designed for data collection from the respondents that are the regular users of Islamic banks in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The method used to collect data was convenience sampling in order to collect data from customers of 4 Islamic banks in Bahawalpur that are Meezan Bank, Bank Islami, Dubai Islamic Bank, and Bank Al-Baraka. Total 200 questionnaires were distributed out of which 163 were collected. Out of 163 collected questionnaires, 157 were in the usable form and used for the final analysis (Regression) using SPSS Ver.20. The results of the study show that attitude towards Islamic banking has a positive impact on the perceived service quality and customer satisfaction regarding the Islamic banking services. Moreover, the results also suggest that perceived service quality also influences customer satisfaction positively, customer satisfaction has positive impact on customer trust and customer loyalty. Furthermore, customer trust also influences customer loyalty positively. The current study enhances the understanding regarding the customer satisfaction, customer trust and customer loyalty and their determinants.