Journal of Service Research and Studies (서비스연구)

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A study on the influence of service recovery activities on churning commodities (Focus on the Cable-TV Industry)

서비스 회복활동이 상품전환에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 (케이블TV산업 중심으로)

  • Kyung, Seung Hyun (Dept. of business administration, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Cheong, Ki Ju (Chonnam National University / Korea Customercenter Information Research Center)
  • 경승현 (전남대학교 전자상거래) ;
  • 정기주 (전남대학교 경영학부, 한국 고객센터 산업연구소)
  • Received : 2016.03.04
  • Accepted : 2016.06.18
  • Published : 2016.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study how service recovery activities influence customers' commodity churning in the media telecommunication industry(CATV industry). Put it differently, we tried to identify this change of commodity churning rates by the stages of service failures, by which we intend to emphasize the importance of service recoveries. Korean media telecommunication market has already been saturated; customers tend to move to bigger major companies with better customer care increasingly. As once customers gone never returns, CRM functions are being reinforced over the time. We were able to have the following results. First, turning rates, for those experienced service failure, who were dissatisfied with service recovery activities are 2~5 times (monthly average turning rates are 1.3%) higher than those satisfied. Secondly, active service recovery activities at the customer's service request after experiencing service failure lowered churning rates significantly. The most effective timing is service recovery activities pre-recovery stage. Thirdly, reward activities after service recovery activities at the immediate recovery stage is more effective than service recovery at the arranged recovery schedule and reward activities after customer's expressing churning intension. The implications of this study are that firms should engage in service recovery activities at the time of identifying service failures, prior to customer's expressing churning intention, which means relatively lower ROI for the service recovery activities than the times of customers' expressing churning intention.

본 연구는 방송 통신 산업에서 기업의 서비스 회복 활동이 고객의 상품 전환율에 미치는 영향을 연구 하는 것이다. 한국의 방송통신시장은 이미 포화상태에 이르렀으며, 서비스 수준이 메이저 회사에 비해 상대적으로 낮은 중소기업들의 고객이동은 점점 증가하는 추세이다. 그리고 일단 한번 이동한 고객은 돌아오지 않는다. 이에 따라, 서비스 기업에게 고객유지는 점점 더 중요해지고 있기 때문에 CRM이 강화되는 추세다. 그러나 대규모 투자와 지속적인 비용이 필요한 CRM은 중소기업에서 운영하기 쉽지 않다. 본 연구에서는 CRM환경이 열악한 기업이 고객의 서비스 실패 상황을 작지만 즉각적인 회복활동이 상품전환에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 실 기업데이터를 사례를 통해 검증하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는, 서비스 실패를 경험한 고객의 이동률이 약 2~5배 (월 평균 전체고객 대상 상품전환율 1.3%)가 높았으며, 적극적인 회복 활동은 상품전환율 감소에 영향을 미친다는 결과를 도출 하였다. 본 연구의 시사점은 고객의 상품전환(Churn) 의사에 따른 서비스 회복활동 보다는 서비스 실패 확인 시 기업의 서비스 회복활동 노력이 상품전환율을 낮추어, 기업의 다양한 서비스 실패 환경에서의 서비스 회복 노력의 중요성을 재차 확인할 수 있었으며, 상품전환(Churn) 의사확인 후 방어활동 비용 대비 상대적으로 저 비용으로 효과를 얻을 수 있다는 결론을 도출 할 수 있었다.

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