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The Way to Regained Trust Through Service Recovery Is Paved with Consumer Forgiveness: The Effects of Service Failure Characteristics

Authors : Lee Han, Huang Heng-Chiang, Shih Chuan-Feng

Published in: Back to the Future: Using Marketing Basics to Provide Customer Value

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Abstract

The concept of service recovery has received significant attention in the fields of service marketing. However, scarcely few prior research has attempted to explore service failure from a customer’s psychological perspective, a research gap that this paper aims to fill. We develop a structural equation model to examine the potential factors that may affect consumer forgiveness and test the role of forgiveness as the consumer’s coping strategy in the case of negative service incidents. The model is tested using survey data from online shopper (N = 308). PLS results reveal that in addition to service recovery, consumer forgiveness is also the key to reconstruct relationship with service provider. And brand trust is an important mediator between consumer forgiveness and repurchase intention. This study also shows the extent to which particular situational factors within the context of service failures and consumers’ personal traits may facilitate or impede consumer forgiveness.

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Metadata
Title
The Way to Regained Trust Through Service Recovery Is Paved with Consumer Forgiveness: The Effects of Service Failure Characteristics
Authors
Lee Han
Huang Heng-Chiang
Shih Chuan-Feng
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Back to the Future: Using Marketing Basics to Provide Customer Value

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-66022-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-66023-3

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66023-3_112