This study aims to examine the effect of supply chain information integration consisting of internal and exter-nal Information Integration on organizational performance, which consists of customer satisfaction, supply chain performance, and financial performance. The technique of collecting data is based on a questionnaire distributed to 185 small food industry owners. Methods of data analysis is based on using SEM-PLS. The results show that internal information integration affected customer satisfaction, supply chain, and financial performance. External information integration is proven to have a nonlinear effect on customer satisfaction and on the performance of the supply chain. Customer satisfaction and supply chain performance affect financial performance. Internal information integration is more dominant and plays an important role in increasing the performance of the organization.

The aim of this study is to investigate the mediating mechanism of customer satisfaction (CS) on customer relationship management (CRM) and customer loyalty (CL) among Nigerian consolidated banks. This paper used a survey research design, and the study unit of analysis consists of selected customers among Nigerian consolidated banks. This study used a purposive sampling technique whereby structured questionnaires were used to collect data from 750 customers of the 5 focused banks in Kano State, Nigeria. Partial least square–structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to evaluate the study hypotheses. The outcome of the study revealed that CRM has a significant effect on CL while CS partially mediates CRM and CL relationship. This paper provides substantial results to practitioners to realize the role of developing a CRM strategy in the Nigerian banking industry. In line with that, the management of the banks should build sound CRM components such as process fit, customer information quality and information system support to deliver sound services in order to operate and compete in the banking ecosystem effectively. This paper has made a substantial contribution to the body of knowledge in the CS, CL, and CRM literature by operationalizing it within the Nigerian banking industry.

Innovation is an important variable, and it has received less attention. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of innovation on customer satisfaction. The study also examines the business performance as a mediator between innovation and customer satisfaction. The study collected data using a questionnaire. A total of 387 responses were collected and analyzed using AMOS. The findings show that innovation positively affected customer satisfaction and business performance. Business performance affected customer satisfaction. Business performance also mediated the effect of innovation on customer satisfaction. Decision makers in the banking industry are suggested to increase the level of innovation to improve the business performance and customer satisfaction.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of customer satisfaction and customer delight on customer loyalty through customer retention. Data were collected using a questionnaire developed based on the literature and administered to a sample of restaurant customers consisting of 376 customers. Using IBM SPSS and AMOS software for data analyses, the results indicate that customer retention had a perfect mediating role in the effect of customer satisfaction on customer loyalty and a partial mediating role in the effect of customer delight on customer loyalty. The study provided several contributions. A key contribution to researchers is that the effect of customer satisfaction on other variables, particularly customer loyalty should be assessed in terms of its direct and indirect effects. A basic contribution to managers is that both satisfied and delighted customers have potential intentions to defect, hence, retaining customers is a crucial step to ensure loyalty. Delighted customers are more likely to be retained and retained customers are ready to be loyal customers.

The objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of supply chain integration (SCI) on customer satisfaction in the potash supply chain in Jordan. 320 samples are collected after completing the sample checking process. The research study uses partial least squares for processing of data. Study outcomes show a connection among the integration of supply chain and customer satisfaction. In addition, the study shows that enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, business strategy, and suppliers have impacts on the integration of supply chain and customer satisfaction.

Customer loyalty plays an important role for the success of aviation companies. Most airlines companies rec-ognized that a frequent flyer is about 10 times more valuable than an associational flyer. As a result, it is essen-tial to evaluate determinants of Vietnamese frequent flyers related to loyalty toward American-based airlines like Delta Air Lines. The customer loyalty was impacted by service quality, brand image, perceived value, pric-ing policy, and customer satisfaction. A sample of 300 Vietnamese frequent flyers of Delta Air Lines was col-lected for this study. The primary data was analyzed with SPSS and AMOS. The results indicate that service quality had no impact on customer loyalty of Delta Air Lines frequent flyers in Vietnam while the rest variables maintained some effects. There were several limitations of this study such as sampling, questionnaires design, and data collection. This research also contributed implications for further studies about customer loyalty in aviation industry.

West Java is one of the largest Muslim provinces in Indonesia. Unfortunately, the growth of Islamic banking is low compared with other provinces with the growth of 4.9 percent. This may be influenced by the poor services of the quality in Islamic Banking which has caused dissatisfaction with Islamic banking customers. The purpose of this article is to analyze the effect of service quality on customer satisfaction in Islamic banking. The research method employs a quantitative approach and emphasizes on the type of explanatory research while the data analysis technique employs Multiple Linear Regression analysis. The result shows that the Service Quality variables proxies with tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy simultaneously influence the level of customer satisfaction in Islamic Banking. This is indicated by F count > F table which is 56.794 > 2.274 or Sig. F (0.00) < α = 0.05. Partially influential factors are tangible, reliability, assurance, and empathy variables while the reliabil-ity variable has no effect and tangible maintains the most dominant influence on customer satisfaction. Based on the results of multiple linear analyses the effect of service quality on customers satisfaction of Islamic banking in West Java is 70.1% while the remaining 29.9% is influenced by other variables which are not examined in this study.

The purpose of this paper is to discover the perception of Umrah travel agents regarding the impact of service quality (SQ) on customer satisfaction (CS) in Malaysia. To perform and accomplish this task, the necessary data were collected through convenience sampling method based on self-administrated structure questionnaire. Out of 500 responses from the respondents, 384 samples were finally chosen and considered suitable for descriptive statistics analysis to fulfil the sole purpose of the paper. There were positive and significant relationship between the retail SQ dimensions and CS. Umrah travel industry contributes significantly on the Malaysian economic growth, and during the last decade the competition has increased dramatically. Therefore, this research study is intended to seek for solid empirical justification to consider SQ as a major and substantial factor in CS in Malaysian Umrah traveling industry.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of marketing mix on customer loyalty through customer satisfaction in food and beverage products of SMEs in Malaysia. The method of collecting data is by using questionnaire and a sample of 300 customers is used for data gathering. Path analysis and Sobel test are used in analyzing the data. The finding shows that product, promotion, place and price have positive effects on customer satisfaction of food and beverage products SMEs in Malaysia. Product, promotion, place and price give contribution to customer satisfaction about 68.9% while the rest is affected by other variables which are not included in this research. Moreover, customer satisfaction has a positive effect on customer loyalty. The finding also shows that product, promotion, place and price had positive effects on customer loyalty through customer satisfaction of food and beverage products SMEs in Malaysia. Product, promotion, place, price and customer satisfaction influence on customer loyalty about 61.7%.

The objective of the research is to examine the role of Supply Chain Integration (SCI) which consists of; suppliers, customers, and internal integration in building customer loyalty. This study uses data from 308 top managers of Tuna Fillets SMEs Industries in Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia as respondents. The research model was analyzed by using PLS-SEM. The research found that SCI had a significant direct effect on operational performance and customer satisfaction. The research also found that operational performance and customer satisfaction had some impacts on increasing loyalty of Tuna Fillets SMEs Industries customers. The results of the analysis also provide information that operational performance and customer satisfaction can be a mediator of the influence of Supply Chain Integration.