Convenience and satisfaction: mediation of fairness and quality

This study investigates the role of service fairness and service quality in the relationship between service convenience types (decision, access, transaction, benefit and post-benefit) and customer satisfaction. Results show that service convenience has a significant positive impact on service fairness. Both service fairness and service quality mediate the relationship between service convenience and customer satisfaction. This study provides useful insights to both researchers and practitioners on the role of service convenience in improving service fairness, service quality and customer satisfaction. Findings of this study contribute to the literature by empirically investigating the impact of service convenience types on service fairness, service quality and customer satisfaction; and by examining the mediating role of service fairness and service quality between convenience types and customer satisfaction.     

Consumers' captive service experiences: it's YOU and ME

Consumers in captive services often do not have the same experiences as consumers in typical service situations; this reality is largely ignored in existing service literature. To fill this void, this research makes a qualitative exploration of consumers' lived captive service experiences. It finds that consumers face several negative service processes. At the heart of these negative service experiences are the interactions of consumers with the service workers on whom they depend. Power has shifted to providers and this permits service organizations to deviate from accepted prudent service practices. Consumers experience service captivity and feel they have little or no recourse to the poor service treatment they receive. This does not, however, stop them from attempting to take back control of their consumption experience when and where possible. Consumers show marked resilience in the face of dehumanizing service interactions. Understanding developed in this research can be used to guide transformative service redesign in contexts of captive service and consumer service captivity.     

基于公众导向的医疗服务管理

医疗公共组织管理要建立以公众健康需求为导向、以就医满意为中心的服务理念,实施医疗服务管理的核心服务战略、服务提升战略、服务价格战略和服务品牌战略。在医疗组织内部加强服务管理,促进组织成员的服务意识、组织部门的有效合作和组织目标的有效执行;并在医疗服务战略管理过程,建立优质的服务环境、优秀的医院文化和优质的医疗服务体系。     

服务创新与服务忠诚关系模型——基于餐饮业的实证研究

以餐饮业为调研对象,用结构方程模式方法对服务创新与服务忠诚关系模型作实证研究。结果表明:人员服务过程和有形展示对服务忠诚的形成具有重要的作用;服务的有形附属产品创新对于服务忠诚的形成无显著作用;服务创新对服务忠诚的作用分别通过服务质量和感知价值来实现。     

中国服务业发展的区域差异性与需求协调性

目前,我国省际之间服务业发展水平差异较大,东部地区服务业发展水平远高于中西部地区,各地区的企业和居民所享受到的服务水平和质量存在较大差异;服务需求潜力大的地区服务业发展水平较高,服务需求潜力小的地区服务业发展水平较低,各地区服务业发展水平与服务需求基本上是匹配的,其服务业发展状况基本上能够满足工农业生产和经济发展的需要;河南、河北两省的服务业发展水平严重滞后于服务潜在需求,应加大服务业发展力度,提升服务业比重;贵州、西藏两省(区)服务业发展水平过多地超越了服务潜在需求,主要是其经济发展水平过低、服务需求不足导致的,贵州省在政策上应抓住西部大开发机遇,加快工业化进程和经济发展步伐,西藏自治区则由于特殊的自然环境和生态保护原因不适合大规模工业的发展。     

Planning and implementing effective service guarantee programs

This article highlights different types of service guarantees, explains the benefits of service guarantees to consumers and service providers, examines why service guarantees are so rarely used, and describes the characteristics of effective service guarantee programs. We seek to motivate additional service providers into offering service guarantees (when appropriate), to improve the effectiveness of service guarantee programs, and to spur additional research that can reduce the gap between academic research and industry practices relating to service guarantees. Properly planned, implemented, and controlled service guarantees can benefit service providers by serving as a signal of quality to customers, focusing on consumer expectations, developing specific performance standards, providing reliable data on service failures, determining weak points in the service-delivery process, and regaining customers who would otherwise be lost. Despite these benefits, service guarantees are not commonly used by service providers for a variety of reasons. We study and evaluate these impediments as well as describe characteristics of effective service guarantee programs from both the consumer's and service provider's perspectives.     

混合服务质量对双线服务忠诚的影响——线上线下融合视角

传统服务质量和电子服务质量已广受关注,但同时基于人-人交互和人-技术交互的混合服务质量还缺乏深入探索。文章基于我国线上线下融合情境构建并实证分析了混合服务质量对双线服务忠诚的影响模型。实证分析表明,实体服务质量、电子服务质量、整合服务质量对感知价值和线上忠诚有积极影响,实体服务质量、整合服务质量对关系质量和线下忠诚有积极影响;感知价值和关系质量对线上线下忠诚均有积极影响;并且,感知价值和关系质量在混合服务质量三维度与线上线下忠诚之间起到一定程度的中介作用。此外,跨渠道质量不一致负向调节了电子服务质量、整合服务质量对感知价值的影响,负向调节了实体服务质量、整合服务质量对关系质量的影响;渠道使用模式负向调节了电子服务质量、整合服务质量对感知价值和关系质量的影响。研究从线上线下融合视角深入挖掘了混合服务质量影响服务忠诚的顾客心理机制和多渠道异质性特征,对混合服务提供商的服务质量和顾客忠诚管理有一定启示作用。     

Customer control and evaluation of service validity and reliability

A control and attribution model of service production and evaluation is proposed. Service production consists of the stages specification (input), realization (throughput), and outcome (output). Customers may exercise control over all three stages of the service. Critical factors of service production are service validity (is the correct service produced?) and reliability (is the service correctly produced?). With more control, customers feel more responsibility for and satisfaction with the service outcome. If this is the case, there is less attribution of service outcomes to the service provider and more to the customer, as a party in the service production. Self-perceptions and perceptual and attributional biases play a self-serving role to justify customer service engagement. Attributions of service outcomes determine perceptions of service quality and behavioral responses such as (dis)satisfaction, complaints, repeat buying, and service loyalty. These customer control and evaluation processes are captured in a set of propositions, advanced to serve future research. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

基于线上线下融合的混合服务质量--内涵、维度及其测量

信息技术的进步促进了线上线下渠道的融合发展,传统服务业正在积极利用线上线下渠道改变服务的生产、传递和消费方式,线上线下融合的混合服务质量管理变得日益重要。文章基于多渠道交易过程视角,考虑顾客通过混合服务传递系统与服务企业的接触体验,全面定义和测量了线上线下融合的混合服务质量。运用访谈法、内容分析法、预调研和大样本调查分析,在中国情景下开发了线上线下融合的混合服务质量测量量表(OMO-HSQ)。通过因子分析、信度检验、效度检验和竞争模型比较分析,证明该量表有良好的心理测量学品质。研究表明,线上线下融合的混合服务质量包括了实体服务质量、电子服务质量和整合服务质量三个主维度及其十五个次级维度和对应的六十一个测量题项,混合服务质量构成维度对总体混合服务质量的相对贡献由大到小依次为整合服务质量、实体服务质量和电子服务质量,实体服务质量评价得分要依次高于电子服务质量和整合服务质量,企业类型、消费者类型和服务行业类型对混合服务质量有差异化影响。研究为测量混合服务质量提供了科学依据和工具,对混合服务企业服务质量管理有重要实践启示。     

The authentic service employee: Service employees' language use for authentic service experiences

This study analyzes how service employees' language use influences the authenticity of a service. The extant service literature on language use remains exclusively focused on the customer's perceptions of first language use in direct communication. Shifting the focus to the service employee, this paper posits that language could exert a wider influence, contributing both to how customers perceive the authenticity of the service and the entire service experience. Analyzing language use in service encounters, the paper addresses this research gap in the literature from the perspective of the service employee. In many service settings, authenticity is an important part in customers' construal of their experience. The study analyzes how service employees in British pubs outside the UK may use English with local customers who frequent these pubs to get a taste of Britain and British culture, contributing to the service literature by introducing a typology to align the service employees' language use with authenticity to strengthen the customer experience. The paper further contributes to service theory by extending the understanding of service sabotage by showing how, why, and in which circumstances service employees may use a language switch to sabotage the customer experience. Finally, the study extends the extant human resources literature on the effects of allowing service employees to be themselves to show that this managerial practice not only benefits the service employees also results in a more authentic customer experience.     

Strategic planning using service roadmaps

Although useful service planning tools exist, few focus on how to integrate service planning into business and technology planning from a longer perspective, which is essential for a firm to survive and grow in the current and future service environment. We suggest that technology roadmaps, initially developed as a long-term strategic planning tool in the manufacturing sector, can be a good solution for the service sector – and indeed are in use in the service sector under the label ‘service roadmaps'. To help more firms enjoy the benefits of the service roadmap concept, this research aims to develop a taxonomy of service roadmap forms. We investigate 93 service roadmaps and identify five dominant types. Then, we analyze the characteristics of each type to understand their current and possible future uses. Our research findings are expected to facilitate the wider use of service roadmaps as a complement to existing service planning tools.     

中国服务业外商直接投资与服务贸易的关系——基于VAR模型的实证研究

本文利用VAR模型对中国服务业外商直接投资与服务贸易的关系进行了实证研究,结果表明,只存在服务出口、服务进口分别是服务业外商直接投资的单向Granger原因,服务业外商直接投资并不是服务出口和服务进口的Granger原因。从长期来看,服务业外商直接投资与服务出口、服务进口均是替代关系,短期来看,服务业外商直接投资与服务出口、服务进口是较弱的互补关系。     

网上超市服务质量测量尺度

本文主要通过对有关传统服务业和网络服务业服务质量的研究进行综合和实证分析,开发出具有可靠性和有效性的网上超市服务质量的测量尺度。文章认为,目前对网上超市服务质量的测量主要是以传统服务业服务质量的测量尺度为基础,无法反映与传统服务业有显著差异的网上超市的服务特性;本文开发的测量尺度可用于消费者调查,分析顾客满意度,改善顾客感到不满意的服务事项,找出消费者认为重要的服务属性,并将此作为服务差异化和市场细分的标准,也可用于网上超市营销战略的制定及分析服务质量各要素对服务质量结果变量的影响力的大小,从而提高资源配置的合理性和有效性。     

服务贸易有力举措——大力发展服务品牌

加入WTO后,随着我国服务贸易的自由化程度不断加深,国内服务业面临的竞争也更加激烈,品牌效应在国际服务市场上的作用日益突出,所以,引入服务品牌竞争机制是我国服务贸易面对加入WTO冲击的有力对策。但是,目前我国的服务品牌处于起步阶段,仍需要服务企业的高度重视、科学培育和法律的有效保护,才能对服务贸易起到巨大的推动作用     

Understanding organization-customer links in a service setting in Russia

This study examines the effect of management commitment to service quality on customer satisfaction through the mediating links of service climate and core and relational service performance in a high-power distance culture. Data were collected using a survey distributed to the FLEs and customers of branches of a Russian retail bank. Study findings demonstrate that branch service climate mediates the management commitment to service quality – service performance relationship and that this indirect effect is stronger on core service performance relative to relational service performance. Contrary to expectations, our findings demonstrate the importance of relational service performance relative to core service performance as a mediator of the branch service climate – branch customer satisfaction relationship. Implications of these novel findings and future research directions are discussed.     

Investigating the Effect of Employee Empathy on Service Loyalty: The Mediating Role of Trust in and Satisfaction with a Service Employee

Abstract

This study examines the indirect effect of employee empathy on service loyalty through the intervening effect of trust in and satisfaction with service employees during service interactions. Data were obtained through a self-administered questionnaire from university students. A total of 410 useable responses were used to perform data analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping for indirect effects were conducted to test the hypotheses. The results show a significant effect of employee empathy on trust in service employee and satisfaction with service employee during customer–employee interactions. Also, satisfaction with a service employee showed a significant effect on service loyalty during service interactions. The study enhances the understanding of empathy within banking services during interactions between service employees and customers. It also provides insights for service managers and frontline service employees on how empathy develops customer’s trust and satisfaction with service employee.     

医药零售行业竞争力及服务创新研究

医药零售行业本质上属于服务业,用波特的五力模型分析医药行业的竞争环境,发现服务创新是医药行业进一步发展和提高竞争力的基础,医药零售行业服务创新体系包括服务理念创新、服务界面创新、服务产品创新、服务组织创新以及服务标准化五个方面。根据孙伯和加卢的服务创新驱动力模型,明确创新的轨道,将消费者纳入创新的主体,将服务创新作为企业不变的战略之一,激发员工的创新积极性,将服务创新专门化、专业化,是医药零售行业服务创新的基本对策。     

Hospital service recovery

An organization's ability to correct service errors is an important factor in achieving success in today's service economy. This paper examines service recovery in hospitals in the U.S. First is a general review of service recovery theories. Next is a discussion of specific service issues related to the hospital environment. The literature on service recovery is used to make specific recommendations to hospitals for ways to improve their ability to remedy service errors when they occur. Suggestions for future research in the field of service recovery are also made.     

世界贸易新体制下我国如何参与服务贸易的市场竞争

随着经济服务化程度的深化,服务贸易在国际贸易中的地位越来越突出。能否在服务贸易的市场竞争中占领例高点已经成为影响各国在国际竞争中地位的一个重要因素。我国服务贸易业发展存在的问题,主要体现在服务业在回民经济中的比重偏低。服务贸易整体水平差;服务贸易内部结构不合理,发展不平衡,市场过于集中;服务贸易管理滞后,服务贸易立法不健全等方面。应积极促进国内服务业的发展,提高服务产业的竞争力;积极适度地开放服务业市场;积极促进服务贸易进出口结构优化升级;建立完善的服务贸易法律体系。健全服务贸易管理体制。     

世界贸易新体制下我国如何参与服务贸易的市场竞争

随着经济服务化程度的深化,服务贸易在国际贸易中的地位越来越突出。能否在服务贸易的市场竞争中占领制高点已经成为影响各国在国际竞争中地位的一个重要因素。我国服务贸易业发展存在的问题,主要体现在服务业在国民经济中的比重偏低,服务贸易整体水平差;服务贸易内部结构不合理,发展不平衡,市场过于集中;服务贸易管理滞后,服务贸易立法不健全等方面。应积极促进国内服务业的发展,提高服务产业的竞争力;积极适度地开放服务业市场;积极促进服务贸易进出口结构优化升级;建立完善的服务贸易法律体系,健全服务贸易管理体制。