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題名 Is maximum customer service always a good thing? Customer satisfaction in response to over-attentive service
作者 Ku, H.-H.;Kuo, Chien-Chih;Chen, M.
郭建志
貢獻者 心理系
關鍵詞 Customer satisfaction; Customer service management; Customer suspicion; Customers; Over-attentive service; Psychological reactance
日期 2013
上傳時間 21-May-2015 15:58:55 (UTC+8)
摘要 Purpose: To investigate customer satisfaction with service encounters characterized by an over-attentive level of service, and the contextual and individual factors moderating the resulting satisfaction scores. Design/methodology/approach: The first of three formal experiments tests the prediction that consumer reactions vary with the margin between actual and expected levels of service. The second examines the influence of the tendency to psychological reactance on participants` responses to excessive service. The third assesses the effect of a predisposition to suspiciousness on satisfaction scores, in scenarios which, respectively, specify that extremely over-attentive service or "normal" service are directed at participants personally or is offered to all customers unselectively. Findings: The first experiment found moderately excessive service to be acceptable to most participants but unexpectedly over-attentive service to affect satisfaction negatively. The second found the negative impact of extremely over-attentive service to be limited to participants with a greater tendency to psychological reactance. The third found that a high predisposition to suspicion resulted in lower satisfaction levels whether the scenario specified extremely over-attentive service that was personal or on offer to all, whereas the satisfaction scores of participants with a lower predisposition to suspicion were not affected in those scenarios. Originality/value: Whereas the relevant literature has focussed on customer reactions to service that falls below expectations, this paper studies service encounters in which it surpasses them. It hypothesizes a counterproductive effect on customer satisfaction and identifies contextual and individual factors that explain and predict that outcome. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
關聯 Managing Service Quality, 23(5), 437-452
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MSQ-10-2012-0142
dc.contributor 心理系
dc.creator (作者) Ku, H.-H.;Kuo, Chien-Chih;Chen, M.
dc.creator (作者) 郭建志zh_TW
dc.date (日期) 2013
dc.date.accessioned 21-May-2015 15:58:55 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 21-May-2015 15:58:55 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 21-May-2015 15:58:55 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/75220-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Purpose: To investigate customer satisfaction with service encounters characterized by an over-attentive level of service, and the contextual and individual factors moderating the resulting satisfaction scores. Design/methodology/approach: The first of three formal experiments tests the prediction that consumer reactions vary with the margin between actual and expected levels of service. The second examines the influence of the tendency to psychological reactance on participants` responses to excessive service. The third assesses the effect of a predisposition to suspiciousness on satisfaction scores, in scenarios which, respectively, specify that extremely over-attentive service or "normal" service are directed at participants personally or is offered to all customers unselectively. Findings: The first experiment found moderately excessive service to be acceptable to most participants but unexpectedly over-attentive service to affect satisfaction negatively. The second found the negative impact of extremely over-attentive service to be limited to participants with a greater tendency to psychological reactance. The third found that a high predisposition to suspicion resulted in lower satisfaction levels whether the scenario specified extremely over-attentive service that was personal or on offer to all, whereas the satisfaction scores of participants with a lower predisposition to suspicion were not affected in those scenarios. Originality/value: Whereas the relevant literature has focussed on customer reactions to service that falls below expectations, this paper studies service encounters in which it surpasses them. It hypothesizes a counterproductive effect on customer satisfaction and identifies contextual and individual factors that explain and predict that outcome. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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dc.relation (關聯) Managing Service Quality, 23(5), 437-452
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Customer satisfaction; Customer service management; Customer suspicion; Customers; Over-attentive service; Psychological reactance
dc.title (題名) Is maximum customer service always a good thing? Customer satisfaction in response to over-attentive service
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1108/MSQ-10-2012-0142
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MSQ-10-2012-0142