When Robot (Vs. Human) Employees Say “Sorry” Following Service Failure

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Xingyu Wang ◽  
YooHee Hwang ◽  
Priyanko Guchait
Keyword(s):  
Service Failure

THE IMPACT OF COMPARATIVE PRICE ON CONSUMER TOLERANCE FOR SERVICE FAILURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 572-572
Author(s):  
Hailong Yang ◽  
◽  
Yuanyu Zhang ◽  
Liangjing Che
Keyword(s):  
Service Failure ◽  
The Impact

Equity and repurchase intention following service failure

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 513-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Palmer ◽  
Rosalind Beggs ◽  
Caroline Keown‐McMullan
Keyword(s):  
Service Failure ◽  
Repurchase Intention

scholarly journals Moderating Effect of the Power–Distance Belief on the Relationship between Employees’ Service Failures and Customers’ Behavioral Outcomes in the Sport Service Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2488
Author(s):  
Hyunseok Song ◽  
Kevin K. Byon
Keyword(s):  
Critical Incident ◽  
Service Failure ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Main Experiment ◽  
Manipulation Check ◽  
Fitness Center ◽  
Service Failures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Power Distance Belief

This study was designed to examine the moderating effects of the power–distance belief (PDB) on the relationship between employees’ service failures and customers’ transactional and non-transactional outcomes in a fitness center context. To test the relationships among these variables, we employed two pretests and a main experiment. In Pretest 1, a critical incident technique (CIT) was used to identify the employees’ service failure situations in fitness centers. Then, in Pretest 2, we developed two written scenarios that described employees’ service failures according to low and high severity and confirmed the differences between these two scenarios with a manipulation check. In the main experiment, we employed scenarios to examine the relationships among service failures’ severity, PDB, and customers’ non-transactional and transactional outcomes. We used Hayes’ PROCESS macro to test the PDB’s single moderating effect on the relationship between the service failures’ severity and the customers’ responses. According to the results, the moderating effect on the relationship between the service failures’ severity and fitness center customers’ non-transactional and transactional behaviors was confirmed. We extended the understanding of fitness center customers’ reactions, depending upon individual PDB to service failures, by comparing low- and high-service failure situations. Our findings also suggest that segmenting fitness center customers may help managers recognize that their customers’ varying responses depend on PDB.

A cross-linguistic study of metacommunication in online hotel reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-470
Author(s):  
Irene Cenni ◽  
Patrick Goethals ◽  
Camilla Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Service Failure ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Service Encounter ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Correct Information ◽  
Linguistic Patterns

AbstractIn this study, we focus on a specific form of metacommunication found in an emerging digital genre: Hotel reviews posted on TripAdvisor. In particular, we investigate how tourists represent their service encounter interactions. The main goal of the present study is to identify what these digital metacommunicative practices reveal about communicative norms and expectations among groups of reviewers writing in three different languages. We analyzed a multilingual dataset of 1800 reviews written in English, Dutch, and Italian. The results reveal that reviewers commented upon a broad range of aspects when evaluating service encounters interactions, for instance, describing the quality of the interaction (e.g. polite, correct), or a lack of communication when a specific type of communication is expected (e.g. absence of greetings, or apologies after a service failure). Further, we found similar cross-linguistic patterns, such as appreciation for being able to communicate in one’s mother tongue during the hotel-guest encounter. At the same time, a few differences across languages emerged, such as the preference for precise and correct information within British reviews. Since service interactions are of fundamental importance for customer satisfaction, our findings contribute not only to the current research on metacommunication in digital contexts, but may also be significant for service providers in the hospitality industry.

Coping with service failure and recovery in restaurant: does being religious matter?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hafiz Abd Rashid ◽  
Muhammad Iskandar Hamzah ◽  
Aida Azlina Mansor ◽  
Syukrina Alini Mat Ali
Keyword(s):  
Service Failure ◽  
Service Failure And Recovery ◽  
Being Religious

EXPRESS: Religious Belief, Religious Priming, and Negative Word-of-Mouth in Everyday Service Failure Encounters

2021 ◽  
pp. 002224372110111
Author(s):  
Riza Casidy ◽  
Adam Duhachek ◽  
Vishal Singh ◽  
Ali Tamaddoni
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Service Failure ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Negative Word ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Fairness Norms ◽  
Strategic Variable

This research examines the effects of religious belief and religious priming on negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) behavior. Drawing on social exchange and norm paradigms, we theorize and find evidence of the unique effects of religious belief and religious priming on NWOM in everyday service failure encounters. Specifically, we find that religious belief is associated with higher NWOM, driven by a greater sensitivity to violations of fairness norms, which in turn reduces forgiveness. However, exposure to religious priming attenuates NWOM among more religious consumers by reducing sensitivity to violations of fairness norms, which in turn enhances forgiveness. A field study involving over 1.2 million online reviews of actual restaurant experiences, in addition to four lab studies, provides support for our theorized effects. Our study sheds light on the religion–forgiveness discrepancy by establishing the mediating role of sensitivity to fairness violations on the relationship between religion and forgiveness in the NWOM context. Further, our results demonstrate the importance of religion as a strategic variable in the management of service failure experiences, providing theoretical implications for the literature on the effects of religion on consumer behavior.

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