The Influence of Price-Based Measures on Perceived Service Value

Abstract

An investigation of perceived service value was conducted with specific reference to hospitality services. The influence of price-based measures on perceived service value was examined within the framework of the utilitarian theory. It was argued that price based measures of acquisition and transaction utilities may provide reasonable representation of perceived service value. The operationalization of acquisition and transaction utilities was elaborated upon and it was argued that within a service exchange context, acquisition utility may outperform transaction utility in explaining variance in the perceived value model. The results provided support for the argument. Managerial implications and future research directions are discussed.     

顾客体验对感知价值和顾客忠诚的影响

顾客体验、感知价值和顾客忠诚相关理论皆为比较成熟的理论,顾客体验对感知价值、顾客忠诚具有重要影响。现将顾客体验相关理论研究拓展至共享单车领域,同时对其提出合理化建议和针对性改进意见,结果表明此研究丰富了顾客体验维度理论,对共享单车企业的管理具有相关借鉴意义。     

Customer Satisfaction,Service Quality and Perceived Value: An Integrative Model

The present study examines the relationships among customer satisfaction, service quality and perceived value. These variables are increasingly recognised as being sources of competitive advantage. However, little empirical research has been conducted to examine these variables simultaneously and their relationships with post-purchase behaviour. The present study was therefore designed to develop an understanding of the relationships among these variables and their influence on postpurchase behaviour. An integrative model was developed and tested using data collected from customers in the restaurant industry. The results reveal that customer satisfaction and perceived value significantly influence post-purchase behaviour. Implications of the findings and areas for future research are discussed.     

Service Quality in Customer Relationships:

This article presents the results of a study of 205 service-related critical incidents in customer relationships in mechanical engineering companies. Information has been gathered from 15 Swedish companies, including Asea Brown Boveri Robotics, Atlas Copco, Bofors, Carlamo, Zander &; Ingesttorn and Wennmec. The selection has been made so as to obtain a spread as regards both tine of production and size of company.

The overall aim of the inquiry has been to increase the understanding of service-related critical incidents in the perspective of long-term, interactive customer relationships. What lies behind these situations? What effect do they have on the development of the selling process? How are customer relations affected? Critical incidents directly connected with the price or the hardware have not been included in this study.

‘Critical incident’ means a problematic, unpleasant situation which places special demands on the service-producing company's resources, especially on its personnel: for example, a customer meeting that fails to avoid friction. The customer may demand customer adaptation of the hardware, special training, special terms of guarantee, short delivery time or a special financing model. Other examples of critical incidents are agreements that have not been kept and missing or incorrect information.     

顾客参与对顾客感知价值的影响:基于心理账户理论

心理账户理论认为消费者在购买一个产品时会在心里打开一个账户,并倾向于在心理上将利益和损失结合起来,以规避和降低先前支出带来的损失痛苦感,因为在面临一项经济交易时,消费者遵循"享乐主义加工"的原则,追求利益最大化或满意最大化.文章从心理账户的禀赋效应和支付贬值视角探讨顾客参与对顾客感知价值影响的中间心理过程,以便我们更好地理解顾客参与怎样影响消费者得失感知以及消费者在参与中为什么倾向于放大利益感知和缩小损失感知,这对于企业的营销实践具有一定的指导意义.     

The Effect of Buyer Participation on Repurchase Intentions in Professional Service Relationships

Abstract

While there is a broad consensus that certain buyer attitudes are associated with the repurchase of professional services, comparatively little attention has been devoted to identifying the behaviors associated with such a repurchase. This study contrasts the predictive power of behaviors with those of attitudes for both established and new professional service relationships among 471 affluent customers. Behaviors, specifically behaviors which heighten participation in the service delivery process, are associated with positive repurchase intentions in new relationships. This study shows that professional service providers should encourage new buyers of their services to become involved in the specification and delivery of the service in order to increase positive repurchase intentions.     

基于顾客价值的服务企业竞争优势分析

随着市场营销领域“以顾客为导向”思想的建立,市场营销理念出现了从顾客满意、顾客忠诚到顾客价值的变化趋势。尤其对服务企业而言,顾客价值对企业获得和保持竞争优势起着至关重要的作用。通过对服务企业顾客价值的分类,构建基于顾客价值的服务企业竞争优势对服务企业的可持续发展有着重要的战略意义。     

Dimensions of Customer Value of Website Communication in Business-to-Business Relationships

The study aims at eliciting dimensions of customer value (CV) of website communication in business-to-business relationships. It draws upon the literature on CV and the interaction approach, utilizing a qualitative case study in the elevator industry. The study portrays seven dimensions of CV of website communication in business-to-business relationships: convenience, efficiency, competence, confidence, comfort, appreciation and enjoyment.     

The Effect of Perceived Value and Switching Barriers on Customer Price Tolerance in Industrial Energy Markets

Purpose: This article analyzes the effects of perceived value, satisfaction, and switching barriers on price tolerance. It also examines the moderating effect of switching barriers.

Methodology/Approach: Empirical research was conducted by collecting information from a sample of 326 major gas and electricity consumers in a newly liberalized industrial market with a high concentration of suppliers.

Findings: Switching barriers are the main antecedent to price tolerance. Price tolerance of industrial customers depends directly on switching barriers more than on satisfaction. The customer satisfaction construct is a necessary but not sufficient predictor of price tolerance. While satisfaction has an effect on price tolerance, the effect of perceived value on price tolerance is only indirect through satisfaction, even though it may produce positive direct effects when there are high switching barriers.

Originality/Value/Contribution: For the first time in a B2B framework, the moderating effects of switching barriers on the relationship between perceived value, satisfaction, and price tolerance have been analyzed.     

Customer Loyalty in Clusters: Perceived Value and Satisfaction as Antecedents

Purpose: This article studies, from the perspective of relationship marketing, the loyalty behavior of industrial customers in the context of an industrial cluster. Loyalty is a key variable for studying long-term relationships between firms.

Research implications: Recent advances in consumer and services marketing consider that perceived value and satisfaction are central to explaining customer loyalty. However, very few business-to-business (B2B) studies explain the antecedents of customer loyalty, where perceived value acquires a multidimensional perspective. This study adopts the relationship marketing approach, and loyalty behavior is analyzed in a specific setting: an industrial cluster. Furthermore, the effect of the number of suppliers is analyzed as a possible moderator in the relationships of the model.

Methodology approach: We have chosen the Spanish tile cluster to test a series of hypotheses. Questionnaires were elaborated from primary and secondary information and structural equation models (SEM) have been used for statistical treatment and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).

Findings: This study highlights the importance of the relationships among perceived value, satisfaction, and loyalty and the importance of the different dimensions of perceived value.

Practical implications: The empirical study and the results provide important evidence for managers, specifically, the critical influence of the emotional and social perceived values by the customer on his or her level of satisfaction and on the achievement of final loyalty—the importance in the commercial training programs of this matters.

Originality, value, and contribution: This study highlights the importance of the most intangibles dimensions of value for the industrial cluster relations between companies.     

品牌社群对顾客价值感知和创新的影响研究

近年来,品牌社群作为消费者群体性虚拟组织迅猛发展,为我们解读顾客价值提供了重要途径。文章认为,品牌社群的特征影响着顾客价值感知和顾客价值创新。通过实证分析可知,品牌社群技术性及品牌社群参与性等对顾客价值感知有正向影响,品牌社群共同意识、道德责任感及品牌社群技术性对顾客价值创新有正向影响。品牌社群运营者可以通过提高品牌社群技术性、促进成员的共同意识、道德责任感和参与性等方面做出行动,以促使成员更好地感知焦点品牌的顾客价值并且参与价值创新,品牌企业也可以通过关注和引导品牌社群的发展增强企业的竞争力。     

物业服务质量对顾客价值及顾客忠诚的影响:居住档次的调节作用

在竞争日益加剧的市场环境中如何提供高质量的服务,提升顾客感知价值以及顾客忠诚度是企业获取竞争优势的关键所在.本文以物业服务行业为研究背景,建构服务质量各维度对顾客价值和顾客忠诚的影响机制模型,并检验居住档次对该模型的调节效应.研究结果表明:与其他行业的服务质量维度构成不同,物业服务质量由实体环境、专业保障、服务效率和人文关怀四个维度构成;实体环境对顾客忠诚产生正向显著影响,而专业保障、服务效率、人文关怀三个服务维度虽然对顾客忠诚没有显著的直接影响,但均通过顾客价值对其产生间接影响;顾客价值是解释服务质量影响顾客忠诚的重要中介变量;居住档次部分调节了实体环境、专业保障、服务效率和人文关怀对顾客价值及顾客忠诚的影响.     

Value Co-Creation in Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer Service Relationships

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the interrelationships among value co-creation, switching costs (SC), and customer share (CS) in both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) relationships. In spite of increasing attention to value co-creation in the Service Dominant Logic, there are only a limited number of empirical studies on this concept. Furthermore, few researchers have investigated the inter-relationship among value co-creation, SC, and CS in a single framework for both B2B and B2C relationships, although many enterprises serve both types of customers. The conceptual framework is developed primarily based on relationship marketing and services marketing. This study evaluates six hypotheses, analyzing survey data from 209 enterprises and 337 individuals by structural equation modeling (SEM). Further, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is conducted to confirm the convergent validity and discriminant validity. In conclusion, the positive impact of execution of value co-creation (EVC) activities on SC and CS is supported with appropriate statistical evidence in both B2B and B2C relationships. Also, the causal relationship between values in relational exchanges (VRE) and CS is confirmed with adequate empirical findings for both relationships. These results suggest to marketing managers that service firms may achieve larger CS by executing value co-creation activities and providing VRE for customers.     

The Perceived Value of Value Meals

Abstract

This study provides a new explanation as to why restaurants frequently sell value meals along with the meals' components separately. We argue that beyond the traditional economic model of extracting the surplus from customers with extreme valuation for particular dishes, mixed bundling unintentionally creates a decoy price effect. With mixed bundling, the value meal might seem more attractive than with pure bundling, generating more profits for the restaurant. The combination of extracting additional consumer surplus and the increased demand due to decoy pricing makes the mixed bundling strategy a highly valuable marketing tool for restaurants. We test the theory by measuring subjects' willingness to pay for value meals while varying the prices of the meal's components that appear separately on the menu. The results strongly support our prediction that customers' willingness to pay for a value meal can be manipulated by controlling the price of the components.     

第三方物流服务对客户物流成本影响的实证研究

供应链物流服务对于提升客户企业的竞争力,提高经营绩效具有重要的影响,特别是中国的企业,如何通过第三方良好的物流服务,强化供应链物流成本管理是当今企业在发展过程中的重大课题。本文在对以往物流客户服务管理进行理论回顾和归纳的基础上,针对中国企业的背景,利用多元回归分析探索了各种第三方物流服务影响因子对委托客户企业供应链物流成本管理绩效的影响,提出物流服务内容上的增值程度和物流服务水准上的贡献程度对于委托客户企业实现良好的供应链物流成本具有较高的影响,从而揭示了当今中国第三方物流如何从效率和效能两个方面入手提供良好的客户物流服务。     

The Strategy of Customer Service

This article explores the role of Customer Service in an organisation's marketing effort and suggests an approach to the development of appropriate strategies. Customer service here is defined in its broadest sense of providing ‘time and place utility’ which might more simply be expressed as the provision of ‘availability’.     

产品伤害中网络与企业响应对顾客感知风险的影响

随着网络媒体的日渐盛行,网络对企业和顾客的影响也越来越大。文章通过两个现场实验,分析了产品伤害危机中网络与企业响应以及网络信息不同呈现方式对顾客感知风险的影响。研究结果表明,面对正面网络响应,企业积极响应和无响应对顾客感知风险的缓解要优于企业消极响应,而面对负面的网络响应,企业积极响应优于无响应或消极响应;网络信息都是正面时,顾客感知风险最低,网络信息先负后正时,顾客感知风险要小于先正后负。     

The Components of Customer Service

Abstract

This paper attempts to identity and establish a taxonomy of generalizable components of customer service. It discusses and incorporates the works of previous authors studying customer service.

While the intent is to establish a generalizable set of customer service components, it should be recognized that this will not be all-inclusive for all industries, firms, or situations. Rather, this basic set of components should be used as a starting point for establishing the specific components in a given situation.     

顾客价值分析研究综述

<正>一、引言20世纪90年代顾客价值概念的提出,将市场营销理念推向了一个全新的高度。市场营销学大师菲利浦·科特勒(Philip Kotler)教授,将顾客价值视为市场营销的基石。     

New Perspectives on Customer Relationships: How Relational Models Influence Customer Experience and How They Are Activated

Abstract

Much research has been conducted into the determinants of customer experience. However, these studies do not include relationship norms as a possible determinant of customer experience. Nevertheless, there are strong indications that the relationship norms used by a customer are an important factor in customer behavior and customer experience. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of relational models on customer experience and to explain possible differences in presence of relational models. This paper describes the results of two studies. The first study focuses on the effects of relational models on customer experience. This first study shows that the type of relationship has a strong influence on customer experience in terms of consumption emotions, customer satisfaction, and recommendation intention. Knowing that differences in the presence of relational models have a strong influence on customer experience, a second study focuses on finding a possible explanation for the differences in the presence of relational models. We hypothesize that differences in the presence of relational models can be explained by how organizations approach their customers and how customers perceive the organization. Especially, the perceived organizational involvement and freedom of choice as perceived by the customer play an important role. The second study, therefore, focuses on the influence of perceived organizational involvement and freedom of choice on relational models. The study shows that organizational involvement and freedom of choice have a significant impact on the activation of relational models. The findings are interesting for organizations that want to improve customer experience.