Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the importance of electronic customer relationship management, relationship quality, customer experience, and customer loyalty, to learn the influence of electronic customer relationship management, relationship quality, and customer experience towards customer loyalty, and to investigate the role, linkage, influence of electronic customer relationship management through relationship quality and customer experience leading to loyalty of large commercial banks in the northern region. The sample group consisted of 522 customers using service channels and electronic communication channels of large commercial banks in the large economic provinces such as Chiang Mai, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Sawan and Chiang Rai provinces. It was a quantitative research. The instrument was a questionnaire using descriptive statistics to find frequency, percentage, and standard deviation. Inferential statistics were used to analyze relationships with structural equations of ADANCO and Sobel's Test programs.
The results of the research were as follows: Loyalty factor had the highest level of feedback followed by the electronic customer relationship management factor, relationship quality and high-level customer experience, respectively. The analysis of influence and association with structural equations was found that electronic customer relationship management had a direct influence on relationship quality, and electronic customer relationship management had the most direct influence on customer experience, followed by relationship quality had direct influence on loyalty. Besides, customer experience had influence on loyalty. Lastly, electronic customer relationship management had a negative influence on loyalty when indirectly through relationship quality and customer experience. The results of this research were useful for commercial banks to formulate a customer relationship management strategy electronically or as a customer relationship management tool suitable for the situation and to build real customer relationships. This will lead to loyalty to the organization so that scholars and researchers can use them in education and further expand their research value. It can be concluded that the results of both quantitative and qualitative research found that electronic customer relationship management is the driving force behind relationship quality and customer experience leading to loyalty in the commercial banking business.