Nittaya Dabjan. The Stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model for studying hostel customer behaviors. Master's Degree(Business Administration). Mae Fah Luang University. Learning Resources and Educational Media Center. : Mae Fah Luang University, 2021.
The Stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model for studying hostel customer behaviors
Stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model for studying hostel customer behaviors
Abstract:
Prior literature highlights very little of empirical and conceptual research involved in explaining and characterizing how the customers perceive of their experiences staying in the hostels. Therefore, a purpose of this research is designed to investigate the effects of stimuli (S), consisting of the factors that the hostel should emphasize, on the customers internal or organismic states (O), which further contributes to customer loyalty and the disposition to engage and share their staying experiences on social media. The hypotheses were developed from related literatures review and built in to 48 items. The final valid questionnaires received with 373 hostel guests staying at hostel around Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai province in Thailand, who thus responded while currently experiencing the service encounter rather than in recalling later. The data analysis and model fit are used SEM (structural equation modeling) and SPSS. The results demonstrate two layered organistic states, which stresses customer satisfaction as an important gateway to induce positive responses, and which draws the positive influences from both hostel internal image and customer value proposition, and loyal customers are important mediator to induce the customers who stayed at the hostels to share their experiences in social media. A rich spectrum of demographics is considered, which leads to a rich set of implications to offer to the hostel management, and also offers insights theoretically.
Mae Fah Luang University. Learning Resources and Educational Media Center