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Building Customer Relationship for Gaining Customer Loyalty in the Pharmaceutical Industry Journal of Advanced Management Science Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2015 Building Customer Relationship for Gaining Customer Loyalty in the Pharmaceutical Industry Agnes Kanyan, Jasmine Vivienne Andrew, Jati Kasuma Ali, and Marianne Merley Beti Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract—As the competition in the pharmaceutical organization’s products and services or why some leave industry becoming more intense, building collaborative the organization, and to develop the strategies to use to relationships with patients, physicians, and other manage such relationships effectively [6] [7]. All the stakeholders are the key to sustain demand for pharmacy business organization including pharmaceutical industry services on a long-term basis. Thus, the purpose of this must adapt to the changing business environment in order study is to identify and understand the importance of key dimension used to assess the success of customer to survive and competitive. Relationship marketing is one relationship and how it affects customer loyalty in the of marketing strategy employed in both developed and pharmaceutical industry. Data was collected from 325 developing economies. customers who purchase their needs from pharmacies Relationship marketing is believed to work most throughout Kuching. A reliability and validity analysis effectively when customers are highly involved in the suggests that Trust have a significant relationship to good or service, there is an element of personal customer loyalty and a subsequent multiple regression interaction, and customers are willing to engage in analysis revealed that Conflict Handling is the most relationship building activities [8]. Pharmaceutical important dimensions of relationship marketing to customer industry need to have a good understanding of their loyalty. This study finding is to gain better understanding of the dimension of relationship marketing as perceived by the customer behaviour so that appropriate marketing customers in pharmaceutical industry. strategies directed towards relationship building and customer retention can be developed. As a result, a great Index Terms—relationship marketing, customer loyalty, deal of research attention has focused on the pharmaceutical industry identification of effective methods of actively enhancing loyalty, including loyalty programs such as point reward schemes. I. INTRODUCTION Ref. [9] has highlighted the need to identify the According to [1], the main objective of relationship variables which can be used to assess the success of a marketing is to achieve customer loyalty by forming long relationship. The importance of dimensions to customers term and mutually beneficial relationships between the may impact on the strength of the relationship that organization and its customers. The purpose of developed between organization and the customers. The relationship marketing is to build customer loyalty in study will focus on the dimensions that affect customer order to obtain customer values through building long- loyalty in pharmaceutical industry. term relationships [2]. It is the understanding, explanation Even though literature has shown that relationship and management of the ongoing collaborative business marketing leads to performance, in practice firms struggle relationship between suppliers and customers [3]. It to adapt models to their business contexts. Firms look for involves establishing, maintaining and enhancing ways to make accountable all marketing relationship relationships with customers and other parties at a profit strategy. Customer loyalty refers to the tendency of so that the objectives of the parties involved are met. This customers to select one company or product over another is done by mutual exchange and fulfillment of promises so as to satisfy a particular need. Ref. [10] conceptualized [4]. customer loyalty as including both psychological and Ideally, a network of mutually rewarding relationships behavior dimensions. should form the foundation of the marketing plan for a Thus, this study aims to identify the dimension of patient care service [5]. Additionally, adopting relationship marketing that affect customer loyalty in relationship marketing effectively tends to give an pharmacies and the focus of study are customers who organization distinctive or comparative advantage over regularly come to the pharmacies to fulfill their needs and competitors, because it will enable them to communicate wants. The study is important in the research on the effectively with the customers, to know what they need relationship marketing and to gain a better knowledge and want, understand why they continue to patronize the and understanding of dimension relationship marketing concept as perceived by the customers in pharmaceutical industry. This study also focuses on the important Manuscript received May 31, 2014; revised August 13, 2014. ©2015 Engineering and Technology Publishing 319 doi: 10.12720/joams.3.4.319-322 Journal of Advanced Management Science Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2015 dimensions such as trust, commitment, conflict handling validity number is the higher the connection between the and communication. variables which means being compared is both high. II. METHODOLOGY TABLE II. CONVERGENT VALIDITY Conflict The target population of this study is defined as Dimensions Trust Commitment Communication customers of various types of pharmacies in Kuching, Handling Sarawak. Data was collected using the personal contact Trust 1.000 Commitment 0.174 1.000 approach as suggested by [11] whereby respondents were Communication 0.309 0.439 1.000 approached personally by the researcher and the Conflict 0.177 0.290 0.429 1.000 questionnaire was explained in detail. A total of 325 Handling questionnaires were distributed to customers who purchase their needs from over 15 pharmacies throughout Table III indicates that all the dimensions have Kuching. A response rate of 100% was achieved from the significant positive correlation with customer’s loyalty questionnaire distribution, with 325 questionnaires being except for commitment that have a negative relationship completed (usable). with customer’s loyalty. Meaning to say, among all the dimensions the factor Trust have a significant relationship III. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS to customer’s loyalty. A. Reliability Analysis TABLE III. CRITERION VALIDITY Table I below shows the result of reliability test for Dimensions Customer Loyalty this study. Trust 0.673 Commitment -0.192 TABLE I. RELIABILITY FOR RELATIONSHIP MARKETING DIMENSIONS Communication 0.418 Dimensions Cronbach Alpha (α) Conflict Handling 0.142 Trust 0.792 C. Multiple Regression Analysis Commitment 0.723 Communication 0.630 Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate Conflict Handling 0.687 the relationship between the relationship-marketing practices and customer loyalty. Customer loyalty was Overall Dimensions 0.802 used as the dependent variable while the dimensions of Based on the table above, Trust has the highest relationship marketing (Trust, Commitment, reliability score of 0.792. Second and third highest score Communication and Conflict Handling) were used as the goes to Commitment and Conflict Handling with the independent variables. score of 0.723 and 0.687 respectively. The lowest score The multiple regression model with all four predictors among these dimensions is Communication which is produced R = 0.376, R² =0.141, F(4, 320 ) = 13.132, p = 0.630. Therefore, total average score of this Reliability 0.000. The multiple correlation coefficients of 0.376 Test is 0.802. All the Cronbach’s Alpha for all the indicate that approximately 14% of the variance of dimensions is above 0.5 therefore all the variables were customer loyalty in the sample can be accounted for the linear combination of the four dimensions. The results reliable and valid. from Table IV indicate that the dimensions of B. Validity Test relationship marketing are positively associated to The term of validity refers to whether or not a test customer loyalty. From the regression test, Conflict measures what it intends to measure. On a test with high Handling is the most important dimensions of validity the items will be closely linked to the test’s relationship marketing that affects customer loyalty. intended focus. For many certification and licensure tests this means that the items will be highly related to a TABLE IV. REGRESSION RESULTS specific job or occupation. If a test has poor validity then Dimensions β Rank it does not measure the job-related content and Trust 0.006 3 competencies it ought to. There are several ways to Commitment -0.111 4 estimate the validity of a test, including content validity, Communication 0.081 2 construct validity, criterion-related validity (concurrent & Conflict Handling 0.357 1 predictive), convergent validity, discriminant validity and face validity. For this study, only criterion validity and IV. CONCLUSIONS convergent validity were used. One method of examining convergent validity is to The target population of this study is defined as correlate the four dimensions with each other. The customers of various types of pharmacies in Kuching, correlation coefficient values range from 0.174 to 0.439 Sarawak. Data was collected using the personal contact (Table II). This indicates the higher positive value of approach as suggested by [11] whereby respondents were
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