ORGANIZATIONAL AND CUSTOMER MODERATORS OF SERVICE RECOVERY ON CONSUMER FORGIVENESS IN HEALTHCARE

Marketing researchers want to better understand service recovery in terms of how failures impact consumers and the effectiveness of recovery strategies. Given the critical mediating role of forgiveness between service recovery and desired outcomes, the purpose of the current research is to pursue th...

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Published in:Journal of consumer satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and complaining behavior dissatisfaction, and complaining behavior, 2022-01, Vol.35, p.26-51
Main Author: Harrison-Walker, L Jean
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Consumer behavior
Consumers
Customer services
Failure
Health care industry
Marketing
Researchers
Structural equation modeling
Variables
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Summary:Marketing researchers want to better understand service recovery in terms of how failures impact consumers and the effectiveness of recovery strategies. Given the critical mediating role of forgiveness between service recovery and desired outcomes, the purpose of the current research is to pursue the richness of the service recovery model by exploring various interactive effects that impact the recovery-forgiveness relationship. This research empirically examines the role of organizational and customer variables as potential moderators in the health care industry using structural equation modeling, the preferred statistical methodology for examining latent continuous variables. We apply the Ping (1995) method of evaluating moderators involving latent continuous variables. Support is found for seven of the nine moderators tested: severity of error, offense repetition, intention of the offense, incompetence perception, response effort and timeliness of response, and involvement. Variety seeking also has a modest effect.
ISSN:0899-8620