Modelling Customer Satisfaction with Food

Purpose: The subject of the article is the relationship between customer satisfaction, loyalty and personality characteristics. It aims to analyse factors that influence customer satisfaction and loyalty, including their mutual relationships.  For this purpose, a comprehensive model of customer sat...

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Main Authors: Simona Činčalová, Petr Suchánek, Martin Prokop
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Technical University of Kosice 2021-12-01
Series:Kvalita Inovácia Prosperita
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Online Access:https://www.qip-journal.eu/index.php/QIP/article/view/1618
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author Simona Činčalová
Petr Suchánek
Martin Prokop
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Martin Prokop
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description Purpose: The subject of the article is the relationship between customer satisfaction, loyalty and personality characteristics. It aims to analyse factors that influence customer satisfaction and loyalty, including their mutual relationships.  For this purpose, a comprehensive model of customer satisfaction was created. Methodology/Approach: The research was carried out using a questionnaire survey on a sample of 1,530 customers of food producers (and 103 food business products that were non-durable) corresponding to the Czech population in terms of gender, age and region. The questionnaires were statistically evaluated using Structural equation modelling (SEM). Findings: The results show that a strong link between standard customer satisfaction factors (perceived quality, perceived value, customer expectation) overshadows the influence of weaker factors (personality). However, this effect is fully demonstrated when these strong factors are filtered out. Research Limitation/Implication: The paper focuses on foods that are sold through retail intermediaries, which also affect customer satisfaction. It may be different for other types of products and services and for products sold otherwise. It can also be limited to CR, resp. transition economics, ie. that in developed countries it could be different. Originality/Value of paper: The contribution of the paper is the finding that customer satisfaction is influenced by a personality factors, whose effect is at first glance weaker. It also shows that the factor image can be constructed taking into account the competitive ability of the company as a hybrid and the functionality of the customer loyalty factor influences the way of its construction.
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spelling doaj.art-e10d101e38914c3e9ef6af223d51ea2f2023-08-10T13:15:12ZengTechnical University of KosiceKvalita Inovácia Prosperita1335-17451338-984X2021-12-0125310.12776/qip.v25i3.1618Modelling Customer Satisfaction with FoodSimona Činčalová0Petr Suchánek1Martin Prokop2College of Polytechnics JihlavaMasaryk UniversityCollege of Polytechnics Jihlava Purpose: The subject of the article is the relationship between customer satisfaction, loyalty and personality characteristics. It aims to analyse factors that influence customer satisfaction and loyalty, including their mutual relationships.  For this purpose, a comprehensive model of customer satisfaction was created. Methodology/Approach: The research was carried out using a questionnaire survey on a sample of 1,530 customers of food producers (and 103 food business products that were non-durable) corresponding to the Czech population in terms of gender, age and region. The questionnaires were statistically evaluated using Structural equation modelling (SEM). Findings: The results show that a strong link between standard customer satisfaction factors (perceived quality, perceived value, customer expectation) overshadows the influence of weaker factors (personality). However, this effect is fully demonstrated when these strong factors are filtered out. Research Limitation/Implication: The paper focuses on foods that are sold through retail intermediaries, which also affect customer satisfaction. It may be different for other types of products and services and for products sold otherwise. It can also be limited to CR, resp. transition economics, ie. that in developed countries it could be different. Originality/Value of paper: The contribution of the paper is the finding that customer satisfaction is influenced by a personality factors, whose effect is at first glance weaker. It also shows that the factor image can be constructed taking into account the competitive ability of the company as a hybrid and the functionality of the customer loyalty factor influences the way of its construction. https://www.qip-journal.eu/index.php/QIP/article/view/1618customer satisfactionpersonalitycustomer loyaltyimagecompetitivenessmodelling
spellingShingle Simona Činčalová
Petr Suchánek
Martin Prokop
Modelling Customer Satisfaction with Food
Kvalita Inovácia Prosperita
customer satisfaction
personality
customer loyalty
image
competitiveness
modelling
title Modelling Customer Satisfaction with Food
title_full Modelling Customer Satisfaction with Food
title_fullStr Modelling Customer Satisfaction with Food
title_full_unstemmed Modelling Customer Satisfaction with Food
title_short Modelling Customer Satisfaction with Food
title_sort modelling customer satisfaction with food
topic customer satisfaction
personality
customer loyalty
image
competitiveness
modelling
url https://www.qip-journal.eu/index.php/QIP/article/view/1618
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