The Role of Service Revival in the Influence of Ethical Marketing on Attitudinal Loyalty
Subject Areas : Business Management
Mohammad Javad Barati
1
(Master of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration, Alborz Branch, Mehr Alborz Higher Education Institute, Karaj, Iran.)
Mohammad Hadi Asgari
2
(Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Tonkabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonkabon, Iran)
Keywords: Ethical Marketing, Service Revival, Attitudinal Loyalty, LC Man Apparel,
Abstract :
The present study analyzed the circular role of service revival in the influence of ethical marketing on customers' attitudinal loyalty. The results have been obtained by examining the opinions of customers of LC Man clothing stores in Tehran. The research method is descriptive, which was implemented by the survey method. The sample size of the research was 384 people, which was obtained based on Cochran's formula based on an unknown statistical population. Non-probability sampling method was available. Data collection was done based on ethical marketing questionnaires by Safari et al. (2016), service revival by Sengupta et al. (2014), and attitudinal loyalty by Ivanchitzky et al. (2006). The validity of the questionnaires was examined and confirmed based on content validity using the opinions of experts, face validity based on the views of a number of statistical societies, and construct validity using the factor analysis method. Attitudinal loyalty was estimated at 0.84 and service recovery at 0.77. Data analysis was done at two levels, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, including structural equation modeling by Smart-PLS statistical software. The results showed that ethical marketing and service revival has an effect on attitudinal loyalty with effect coefficients of 0.336 and 0.355, respectively, and ethical marketing has an effect on service restoration with an effective coefficient of 0.413. Finally, it can be said that ethical marketing has, directly and indirectly, affected the attitudinal loyalty of customers; In other words, service revival has played a mediating role in influencing ethical marketing on customers' attitudinal loyalty.
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Nouri Razi Al-Awadi, F., Behboodi, O., & Sharbaf Eidghahi, A. (2022). A Survey of Loyalty Strategies and Word of Mouth Communication to Customers of Sports Products (Case Study of Adidas Brand Customers in Iraq). Journal of Management and Sustainable Development Studies, 2(1), 109-132. https://doi.org/10.30495/msds.2022.1962692.1061 (In Persian)
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Shahtahmasbi, E., Khodadad Hosseini, S. H., & Kordnaije, A. (2015). The Impact of External Relations of Manages and Organization on Competitive Advantage through Articulating Roles of Firm Image and Brand Credibility (Case Study: A Construction Company). Quarterly Journal of Brand Management, 2(1), 13-37. https://doi.org/10.22051/bmr.2015.2286 (In Persian)
Shiri, A., Dehghani Soltani, M., Soltani Banavandi, A., & Azadi, Y. (2017). The Effect of Service-orientation on Customer's Loyalty with Mediating Role of Service Quality in Hotel Industry (A case Study: Kerman's Pars Hotel). Journal of Tourism and Development, 6(2), 39-62. https://doi.org/10.22034/jtd.2020.110396 (In Persian)
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Zehir, C., & Narcıkara, E. (2016). E-service quality and e-recovery service quality: Effects on value perceptions and loyalty intentions. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences(299), 427-443.
