Books by Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid

Retail Service Quality is a vital driver in determining customer satisfaction, which in turn promotes customer loyalty and reduces switching intentions. Service quality is a solution to build customer satisfaction which could lead to customer loyalty hence reducing switching intentions. The current study has investigated the interrelationship between service quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty with switching intentions of customers, and the moderating role of price discounts and store ethnicity, in a single framework. Random sampling was used by administering standardized questionnaires personally to 450 hypermarket customers located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The results confirmed that retail service quality has significant positive influence on customer satisfaction, and the positive effect of customer satisfaction on customer loyalty. Besides, the study verified store ethnicity and price discounts acted as moderating mechanism for explaining the switching intentions of satisfied and loyal customers. The results serve as a guideline for top managers of the hypermarkets to design appropriate policies and strategies in terms of retail service quality, price discounts and identifying the needs of ethnic groups in a particular region. This will help to enhance customer satisfaction and customer loyalty hence reducing switching intentions of customers.

Electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) is a comprehensive business and marketing strategy for attracting and retaining customers over the internet. The proliferation of ECRM and its alarming failure rate call for a better understanding of the relationship between ECRM and its immediate objective. Based on the literature reviewed, there are few studies that have used service quality as a component of relationship quality in the relation between ECRM and customer satisfaction. The study investigates the influence of three components of ECRM (i.e., pre-purchase, at-purchase, and post-purchase ECRM) on customer satisfaction directly and through mediating variable relationship quality. A quantitative methodology using a cross-sectional survey method was used to investigate the relationship between variables.

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Supply chain management has become an important issuein any business organization. Organizations arefacing increasing competitive pressure with respectto prices, delivery, quality, variety and innovationof products and services. In order to respond tothese challenges, organizations require an integratedsupply chain. The purpose of this research is topresent the relationship between firm integration andsupply chain orientation. This study also determineswhether supporting technology moderates therelationship between internal and external firmintegration and supply chain orientation.