“…The management of customer relationships, seeking their satisfaction, retention, and achievement of loyalty is a critical process in most business scenarios (Larán & Espinoza, 2004). To this end, several academic studies have been conducted to enable a better understanding of the manifestations of loyalty, its antecedents, and consequential moderators, including switching costs (Gastal, 2005;Gonçalves, Gonçalves, Ferreira, & Veiga, 2009;Perillo, 2007).…”