The Effect of Innovation Factors to Customer Loyalty by Structural Equation Model

Innovation is being view from four areas of innovation, product, service, technology, and marketing. Whereas customer loyalty is composed of customer expectation, perceived quality, perceived value, corporate image, customer satisfaction, customer trust/confidence, customer commitment, customer complaint, and customer loyalty. This study aimed to investigate the influence of innovation factors to customer loyalty to GSM in the telecom companies where use of products and services. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using to analyze innovation factors. It was found the factor of innovation have significant influence on customer loyalty.

Authors:

• M. Dachyar
• Fatkhurrohman

Keywords:

• Innovation
• telecommunication
• customer loyalty
• SEM

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