Benefit: Jurnal Manajemen dan Bisnis
Volume 5 No 2 Desember 2020

Brand Loyalty Mediation in Brand Attachment and Customer Digital Experience towards Smartphone Repurchase Intentions

Verina Cornelia (Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. Accredited A)
Yusepaldo Pasharibu (Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. Accredited A)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Dec 2020

Abstract

Brand loyalty is one of the most essential component that incumbent company to retain their customers, particularly in order to win the market share. The main reason is that incumbent firms need to maintain their market share and then upscale their market when they have a thorough understanding of the segmentation. Brand loyalty in this study is utilized as a mediating variable to confirm the impact of brand attachment and customer digital experience for the repurchase intention creation of smartphone users.  An online questionnaire was distributed to 100 respondents using a purposive sampling technique. The criteria of respondents in this study are those who are using Samsung smartphone for at least a year, and experience searching the brand using a digital platform. The statistical analysis showed that brand attachment and customer digital experience have a significant positive influence on brand loyalty. Furthermore, brand attachment shows direct and indirect effects to repurchase intentions indicating partial mediation existence of brand loyalty.  Customer digital experience indirectly affects repurchase intentions through brand loyalty. These results highlight the role of brand attachment and customer digital experience has to secure repurchase intentions of customers by utilizing brand loyalty.

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Journal Info

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benefit

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Benefit: Jurnal Manajemen dan Bisnis is a peer-reviewed journal published by Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, covering a variety of topics in economics, management, business and ...