Examining Public Hospital Service Failure: The Influence of Service Failure Type,Service Expectations,and Attribution on Consumer Response

This study investigates three independent variables; types of service failure, service expectations, and attribution on postfailure responses in healthcare. A between-subjects 3?×?2?×?2 experimental design using written scenarios was used. The findings demonstrate that customer responses to service failures in hospitals are extensively influenced by the type of service failure, the level of service expectation of the provider, and, to a lesser extent, the controllability of the cause of the failure. Core service failures lead to greater increases in negative responses for satisfaction, emotional, and behavioral responses than supplementary service failure with high service expectations protecting the provider against overall dissatisfaction, negative word-of-mouth, and switching behaviors. Interestingly, perceived high controllability leads to greater dissatisfaction but not to increased negative emotional or behavioral responses. The study applies attribution theory to explain the results. The article concludes with managerial implications.     

顾客应对倾向、服务失败程度与服务补救策略

服务补救是企业挽回顾客信心的关键,补救策略的效果与失败情境和顾客特质密切相关。本文以关键事件法和访谈法对过程补救策略进行划分,并与结果补救策略形成有效组合,通过实验法考察顾客应对倾向与服务失败程度对补救策略的影响。结果表明：结果补救策略与问题应对顾客之间存在匹配效应,且失败程度越高,匹配性越强;过程补救策略与情绪应对顾客之间的匹配效应在服务失败程度严重时得以体现。     

基于服务补救的服务质量提升研究

本文认为,实行服务补救是企业保持顾客满意、强化顾客忠诚的一个重要手段,其最大的价值在于以点的质量突变促进整体质量大跨越,从而实现服务宏观综合质量与其他方面质量的提升。文章提出,基于服务补救的服务质量提升模式主要由三部分组成:一是着眼于微观基点的质量维持稳固器,其功能主要是第一时间发现并识别服务失误,第一时间采取补救措施解决顾客问题并收集失误、补救以及顾客表现出的隐性与显性信息;二是质量价值挖掘器,这是把微观的服务补救价值放大、映射到整个宏观层面以提升整体服务质量的关键;三是质量提升推动器,是为了把以上所获得的全部价值注入到质量管理工作中来,以提升整体的服务质量。     

基于服务利润链的物流服务补救策略

在物流行业竞争日益激烈的今天,服务质量已成为物流企业竞争的主要方面,持续的服务补救能使物流企业发现问题、改进缺点,进而使服务运作体系更加优化。从服务利润链的角度,将物流服务补救分为内部服务补救和外部服务补救,这样就形成了积极有效的物流服务补救策略。     

零售业的服务失误归因及服务补救策略

零售企业是一个与顾客紧密联系的服务型企业,失误的频次相对较高,容易流失顾客,形成"不良口碑"。寻找服务失误的原因以及实施补救措施,降低顾客流失,减弱"不良口碑"成为零售企业所追求的目标。本文根据零售企业的运营模式将服务失误的原因进行了分类,从企业、顾客和供应商三个方面挖掘服务失误的原因并给出了相应的服务对策。     

Consumer Reactions to Unethical Service Recovery

Ethical business practices have been widely prescribed, but why? Consumer’s views on unethical business practices have been studied, but possibly more important to marketers and researchers are consumer actions and reactions to unethical business practices and the businesses themselves. Do consumers react negatively, or in such a way as to "punish" the unethical business? If so, what is the nature and extent of the punishment? This research seeks answers to these questions by examining consumer reactions, such as complaining and switching, to instances of unethical business practices. Using equity theory, this research proposes that consumers should be willing to tolerate some unethical behavior as long as they feel their investments and outcomes remain proportionately equal. Consumers who perceive that their outcome/investment ratio is proportionately unequal to their comparison other will respond by switching or complaining. In this research consumers were exposed to two types of service failures with different levels of service recovery in vignettes. Costs incurred by the consumer during the service transaction were also manipulated in the vignettes. Significant differences were found for complaint behavior in the failure recovery vignettes tested. Specifically, voice complaint was higher in the high cost service encounters in both types of services tested. The recovery attempt used (ethical, unethical, or none) led to significance differences in the variables of complaint, voice complaint, satisfaction, and quality. Higher satisfaction and quality ratings were found for the ethical recovery attempt and higher intentions to use complaint and voice complaint in the unethical recovery attempts. One significant interaction between cost and recovery attempt was found. Intentions to use voice complaint were higher in the high cost situations of ethical and unethical recovery, while approaching equality at the no recovery attempt.     

服务补救措施对顾客情绪之影响的实证研究

本文认为,服务失败会给顾客造成实际问题和情感问题两方面的影响,同样,服务补救措施不仅会影响顾客的认知,而且直接影响着顾客的情绪.道歉措施能增强顾客的积极情绪,减弱顾客的外在归因消极情绪;而辩解措施加剧了顾客的外在归因消极情绪,降低了顾客的积极情绪;心理补救 有形补救的措施,无论在顾客满意上还是顾客情绪改善上,都是最佳的补救措施.     

市场失灵评价标准的演变及其争论

市场失灵的评价标准经历了从庇古的效率标准、公平标准到帕累托最优标准．最终到效率标准、公平标准与稳定标准三位一体的演变,演变的过程反映了西方经济学家对市场机制认识的不断深化。由于价值取向的不同,经济学家们对市场失灵评价标准的争论和质疑从来就没有停息过,而且这种争论仍将继续。     

Linkages Between Switching Barriers and Service Recovery Evaluation: An Indian Exploration

ABSTRACT

This study attempts to investigate the relationship between switching barriers and service recovery evaluation of consumers in Indian context. Empirical findings of the present study provided useful insights. The primary statistical techniques used in the study were correlation analysis and exploratory factor analysis. A total of 347 respondents completed the field survey, and the survey was conducted in Dehradun, Uttrakhand. It was found from the results of correlation analysis that compensation and promptness constructs had comparatively high correlation coefficients with overall service recovery evaluation in comparison to employee behavior construct. Another insightful finding of the study provided evidence for a significant relationship between service recovery evaluation and positive switching barriers, but at the same time there was no evidence for a relationship between service recovery evaluation and negative switching barriers.     

Service failures and recovery strategies of chain restaurants in Taiwan

This study utilised the critical incident technique to study service failure and recovery strategies in chain restaurants. A total of 431 incidents were collected and classified. The analytical results identified the most common categories as being service failure and recovery strategy. It also demonstrates that consumers were unable to recognise high-quality service and high-consistency products in chain restaurants. Additionally, appropriate recovery strategies were proposed to assist restaurateurs in reducing service failure. A number of conclusions and recommendations regarding practice and future research are made.