Does the tag "Islamic" help in customer satisfaction in dual banking sector?

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作者
Lone, Fayaz Ahmad [1 ]
Bhat, Ulfat Rashid [2 ]
机构
[1] Higher Educ Dept, Dept Commerce, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India
[2] Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz Univ, Coll Sci & Humanities, Hotat Bani Tamim, Saudi Arabia
关键词
Saudi Arabia; Islamic Markets; Islamic financial services marketing; Customer satisfaction; Selling to Islamic markets; Islamic tag; Islamic and conventional banking; SERVICE QUALITY;
D O I
10.1108/JIMA-11-2016-0084
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out the importance of the tag "Islamic" in the title of banks. This will help to determine the future strategy of Islamic banks, while expanding to the countries where Islamic banking is seen as a religious banking and not an as an alternative approach to the conventional banking. Design/methodology/approach Adopting convenience sampling, a total of 596 customers of both Islamic and conventional banks were surveyed from four regions of Saudi Arabia (Makkah, Madinah, Riyadh and Dammam) using a self-structured questionnaire on a five-point Likert scale. Findings The results concede that Islamic banks without the tag "Islamic" and conventional banks have same customer satisfaction. There are some factors other than the tag "Islamic" which are driving customers towards Islamic banking. Those factors include physical aspects of the bank, level of satisfaction with the services, dealing and attendance by the staff and safety and security of the bank. Besides, the application of fundamental principles of Islamic banking works as a key motivation for customer satisfaction with Islamic banking. Practical implications - Applying the tag "Islamic" is not as important as implementing the principles of Islamic banking. Islamic banks can survive and compete well even without using the "Islamic" tag if they implement the prime principles of Islamic banking and work on improving the factors highlighted by this study. This study can prove to be helpful in the expansion of Islamic banking in the countries where religious banking is not generally preferred by customers. Originality/value - This is the first study to find out the customer satisfaction in a dual banking system (comprising of conventional banks and Islamic banks that do not use the tag " Islamic"), thereby filling the existing gap in the Islamic banking literature.
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