Studying the influence of airlines corporate social responsibility on consumers loyalty
Other Title(s)
تأثير المسؤولية الاجتماعية لشركات الطيران على ولاء العملاء
Joint Authors
Abd al-Hamid, Ghadah Muhammad Khayrah
Mahir, Azzah
Source
Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality
Issue
Vol. 11, Issue 2 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.167-186, 20 p.
Publisher
Suez Canal University Faculty of Tourism and Hotels
Publication Date
2014-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
20
Main Subjects
Economics & Business Administration
Abstract EN
Nowadays, integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives into business is an important challenge facing organizations development.
Corporations that embrace this concept reap many benefits including customer loyalty, positive attitudes toward brands, customer trust, positive publicity and better financial performance.
Increased spending on CSR initiatives is expected to increase customer satisfaction and build competitive advantage.
In today’s competitive airline business environment, companies are striking to retain their existing customers and gain the repurchase intention of customers.
As a result, an increasing number of airlines have implemented CSR initiatives.
CSR programs become active charmels for building customer loyalty as customers appear to provide greater support for companies that are socially and environmentally responsible.
Accordingly, Customer loyalty becomes one of the most essential consumers behaviors that airlines endeavor to influence through the use of corporate social responsibility as a marketing tool in their strategies.
Therefore, this paper aims at exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and customer loyalty in the airline industry.
It also tries to discover the main critical factors that have more effect on social responsibility in the airline industry.
To achieve the purposes of this paper, a model was developed to measure the influence of airlines corporate social responsibility activities in customer loyalty and airline image.
This model includes 16 attributes, which have been selected to cover airlines CRS activities, and 21 initial items for measuring customer loyalty.
The proposed model was presented as a self administrated questionnaire.
The sample chosen in this study includes mamly international airlines passengers (727 passengers).
Furthermore, the analysis of simple linear regression and spearman correlation are applied.
The results of this study confirm that there is a significance statistical relationship between airlines CRS activities and customer loyalty.
The results also determine that social responsibility activities related to customers and community are the most important factors affecting customer perception of the airline image
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abd al-Hamid, Ghadah Muhammad Khayrah& Mahir, Azzah. 2014. Studying the influence of airlines corporate social responsibility on consumers loyalty. Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality،Vol. 11, no. 2, pp.167-186.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-822040
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abd al-Hamid, Ghadah Muhammad Khayrah& Mahir, Azzah. Studying the influence of airlines corporate social responsibility on consumers loyalty. Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality Vol. 11, no. 2 (Dec. 2014), pp.167-186.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-822040
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abd al-Hamid, Ghadah Muhammad Khayrah& Mahir, Azzah. Studying the influence of airlines corporate social responsibility on consumers loyalty. Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality. 2014. Vol. 11, no. 2, pp.167-186.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-822040
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 181-185
Record ID
BIM-822040