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http://dx.doi.org/10.9716/KITS.2020.19.1.129

The Effects of the Type of Online Chatting Service Interface : Focusing on Company Status  

Park, Sangwoo (서울시립대학교 산업경영 연구소)
Shin, Dongwoo (서울시립대학교 경영학부)
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Journal of Information Technology Services / v.19, no.1, 2020 , pp. 129-144 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent advances in digital purchase platforms allow consumer to easy to access online purchase, but the online purchase systems often occurs a negative situations such as service failure. When customer experiences negative service, they want to communicate with the company online chatting service. But not much is known about how customers online chatting service's contextual cues effectiveness. So, the current research seeks to examine the effects of type of online chatting service interface and company market status on customers' perception of service quality and satisfaction with online chatting services. The results of two studies show that, when customer experienced negative online service, they expected to a high status (vs a low status) company had offered better service. but their service request are not met, customers perceive better service quality if served by a low status (vs high status) company represented by a logo (vs. an emoji). These findings will help marketing practitioners strategically how design their chatting service interface according to the their status when they communicate with customer who experienced negative service.
Keywords
Online Customer Chatting Service; Interface Presentation; Company Status;
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