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Antecedents of trust, corporate image, and switching costs: A case in telecommunication services in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
Ishik University, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Iraq.
Ishik University, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Iraq.
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Economics. Department of Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7902-4683
2021 (English)In: International Journal of Mobile Communications, ISSN 1470-949X, E-ISSN 1741-5217, Vol. 19, no 1, p. 53-74Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This study elaborates on the direct effects of the antecedents of customer trust, corporate image, and the cost of switching service providers. It also examines the indirect effects of these antecedents on customer loyalty and satisfaction through trust, improved corporate image, and lower switching costs. The results of our analysis, which covered a sample of 514 customers in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, show that all the four antecedents studied had both direct and indirect effects on trust, corporate image, switching costs, satisfaction, and loyalty. We also observe that satisfaction is an important mediator between loyalty and the other variables. However, conflict handling has very strong direct and indirect impacts on the other dependent variables. There are some differences between our findings and those of previous research on countries like Turkey, China, and western cultures.

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InderScience Publishers, 2021. Vol. 19, no 1, p. 53-74
Keywords [en]
corporate image; trust; switching costs; telecommunications service sector; GSM operators; Iraq
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49356DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2021.111892ISI: 000602684500003Local ID: ;intsam;1441469OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-49356DiVA, id: diva2:1441469
Available from: 2020-06-16 Created: 2020-06-16 Last updated: 2021-02-24Bibliographically approved

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