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What Goes Around Comes Around: The Impact Of Employee Empathy On Service Recovery Performances

This research compares the impact of employee service recovery strategies with focus on affective (i.e., empathic concern) and cognitive empathy (i.e., perspective-taking) on customers’ emotional Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Jens Hogreve, Christina Jerger
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Do Mystery Callers Really Represent Customers?

Mystery calling is a specific form of mystery shopping that is often applied for evaluating customer contact services. Using data from both customers and mystery callers (MCs), we study the validity Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Janny C. Hoekstra, Peter S.H. Leeflang, Annette Ammeraal
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Do Others Influence What We Say? The Impact Of Interpersonal Closeness On Word-of-Mouth Valence

A great deal of research in word-of-mouth (WOM) has aimed to understand whether consumers are more likely to share positive or negative information (Brown & Reingen 1987; Herr, Kardes, & Kim Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: David Dubois, Andrea Bonezzi, Matteo De Angelis
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Pour Oil On Troubled Water: The Effects Of Mere Measurement And Time On Customer Desire For Revenge

Since revenge significantly affects both victim and offender, research on revenge has received increasing attention in the psychology (McCullough, Fincham, and Tsang 2003; McCullough, Kurzban, and Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Mina Rohani, Yany Grégoire, Renaud Legoux
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Suffering In Silence: Close Customers’ Reluctance To Complain Damages Service Relationships

Firms strive to create strong relationships between their service providers and customers (Yim, Tse, and Chan 2008). Indeed, strong customer relationships drive favorable word of mouth (Verhoef, Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Nita Umashankar, Morgan Ward
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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