• Proceedings of the Korean DIstribution Association Conference
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.21-46
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 인터넷 쇼핑몰에서 불만족을 경험한 고객들의 불평요인 및 불평행동유형을 파악하고, 쇼핑몰 업체의 불평처리방법에 대한 평가를 바탕으로 효과적인 불평처리방안을 제시하였다. 연구 결과 불평행동을 하는 고객의 유형은 직접행동파, 사적행동파, 소극행동파, 적극행동파 등으로 구분되었다. 이 가운데 사적행동파가 가장 높게 나타나 인터넷 환경에서는 사적행동파에 대한 효과적인 불평처리 방안에 관한 노력이 가장 필요한 것으로 확인되었다. 직접행동파는 해당 쇼핑몰 업체에게 직접 문제해결을 요구하기 때문에 불평처리에 대한 공정성, 불평 후 만족과 충성도 측면에서 가장 효과적인 것으로 확인되었다. 그리고 고객의 모든 불평행동유형에서 가장 심각한 불만족 요인으로는 배송오류 및 지연과 제품결함인 것으로 확인되었지만, 사적행동파와 소극행동파는 부정확한 정보제공과 과장광고 등을 심각하게 생각하고 있었다. 인터넷 쇼핑몰 업체는 불평고객들의 불평해결을 위해 직접적인 접촉을 할 경우 가장 효과적인 불평처리를 할 수 있기 때문에 사적행동파와 소극행동파의 불평행동을 유발하기 위한 노력이 필요하다. 또한 쇼핑몰 관리자의 불친절 및 반응은 심각한 불만족 요인은 아니지만, 배송오류 및 지연과 제품결함과 같은 심각한 불만족요인에 대해서는 직접적인 사과 및 쇼핑몰 관리자의 친절한 태도를 포함하여 현금 환불 등 불평처리를 해야 한다. 그리고 고객의 관점에서 인터넷 쇼핑몰을 보다 편리하고 유용하게 설계할 필요가 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.163-176
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• 2015

The purpose of this research is to find out the service quality dimensions and detailed elements of a call center, and to study what relationship the service quality dimensions have with service recovery and customer royalty. This research set up the hypothesis and the research model to verify the relationship between the call center service quality and the service quality customer royalty for 139 people surveyed who experienced dissatisfactions. The result of the hypothesis verification shows that it has an influence on the counselors' service quality and service recovery processes of 3 call centers. The service recovery has en influence on the customer royalty. The result quality as a result remained for a customer after counseling can be called the ultimate purpose of using the call center for a customer, and the research shows that it has the largest influence on the service recovery of 3 dimensions of the call center service quality. In the relationship between the service recovery and the customer royalty, the service recovery has a meaningful influence on the customer royalty.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.32 no.12
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• pp.1866-1877
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• 2008

The purposes of this study were to identify the dimensions of perceived dissatisfaction, complaining behavior, and long-term orientation of customers about the Internet fashion shopping mall, and to empirically examine the effects of each dimension of perceived dissatisfaction and complaining behavior on long-term orientation. For this study, questionnaires were administered to 275 Internet shopping mall customer. To analyze collected data, descriptive analysis, factor analysis, Cronbach's $\alpha$, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were used. Major findings were as follows. First, college students were found to mainly complain of dissatisfaction at product quality, refunding/changing/maintenance repair, price, contract, delivery, and payment after transaction with the Internet shopping mall. Second, customer dissatisfaction was found to have high correlation with complaining behavior and partly with customer neglect or exit. Third, higher customer dissatisfaction was found to increase customer complaining behavior in general. Finally, higher complaining behavior was found to have connection with lower customer loyalty and higher customer neglect and exit.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-36
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• 2012

Service failure is one of the major reasons for customer defection. As the business environment gets tougher and more competitive, a single service failure might bring about fatal consequences to a service provider or a firm. Sometimes a failure won't end up with an unsatisfied customer's simple complaining but with a wide-spread animosity against the service provider or the firm, leading to a threat to the firm's survival itself in the society. Therefore, we are in need of comprehensive understandings of complainants' attitudes and behaviors toward service failures and firm's recovery efforts. Even though a failure itself couldn't be fixed completely, marketers should repair the mind and heart of unsatisfied customers, which can be regarded as an successful recovery strategy in the end. As the outcome of recovery efforts exerted by service providers or firms, recovery of the relationship between customer and service provider need to put on the top in the recovery goal list. With these motivations, the study investigates how service failure and recovery makes the changes in dynamics of fundamental elements of customer-firm relationship, such as customer affection, customer trust and loyalty intention by comparing two time points, before the service failure and after the recovery, focusing on the effects of recovery satisfaction and the failure severity. We adopted La & Choi (2012)'s framework for development of the research model that was based on the previous research stream like Yim et al. (2008) and Thomson et al. (2005). The pivotal background theories of the model are mainly from relationship marketing and social relationships of social psychology. For example, Love, Emotional attachment, Intimacy, and Equity theories regarding human relationships were reviewed. As the results, when recovery satisfaction is high, customer affection and customer trust that were established before the service failure are carried over to the future after the recovery. However, when recovery satisfaction is low, customer-firm relationship that had already established in the past are not carried over but broken up. Regardless of the degree of recovery satisfaction, once a failure occurs loyalty intention is not carried over to the future and the impact of customer trust on loyalty intention becomes stronger. Such changes imply that customers become more prudent and more risk-aversive than the time prior to service failure. The impact of severity of failure on customer affection and customer trust matters only when recovery satisfaction is low. When recovery satisfaction is high, customer affection and customer trust become severity-proof. Interestingly, regardless of the degree of recovery satisfaction, failure severity has a significant negative influence on loyalty intention. Loyalty intention is the most fragile target when a service failure occurs no matter how severe the failure criticality is. Consequently, the ultimate goal of service recovery should be the restoration of customer-firm relationship and recovery of customer trust should be the primary objective to accomplish for a successful recovery performance. Especially when failure severity is high, service recovery should be perceived highly satisfied by the complainants because failure severity matters more when recovery satisfaction is low. Marketers can implement recovery strategies to enhance emotional appeals as well as fair treatments since the both impacts of affection and trust on loyalty intention are significant. In the case of high severity of failure, recovery efforts should be exerted to overreach customer expectation, designed to directly repair customer trust and elaborately designed in the focus of customer-firm communications during the interactional recovery process to affect customer trust rebuilding indirectly. Because it is a longer and harder way to rebuild customer-firm relationship for high severity cases, low recovery satisfaction cannot guarantee customer retention. To prevent customer defection due to service failure of high severity, unexpected rewards as a recovery will be likely to be useful since those will lead to customer delight or customer gratitude toward the service firm. Based on the results of analyses, theoretical and managerial implications are presented. Limitations and future research ideas are also discussed.