• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.509-515
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to determine the service quality satisfier and dissatisfier factors of family restaurants in Korea by using a qualitative research method, the critical incident technique(CIT). The CIT helps researchers find new factors or attributes by grouping key issues and categorizing common factors from the raw data, critical incidents which critically satisfied or dissatisfied customers. The respondents must describe the incidents in details. There are many previous studies on the attributes related to service qualities, selections, and revisiting intentions and the relationships between the attributes. These studies offer many insights for general trends and directions for managing service qualities, but not how to improve service quality practically. It is difficult to know specific service quality factors especially influencing Korean customers because the factors come from previous research and not from the respondents themselves. Therefore, this research categorized key satisfier and dissatisfier factors from 402 critical incidents described by 261 respondents into 5 groups and 33 subcategories. Real cases and examples are also explained that either critically satisfied for dissatisfied customers at family restaurants.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1185-1198
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• 2011

This research explores the consumers' experience in retailing channel(offline channel and online channel) using the critical incident technique. This research aims to clarify the common incidents within retailing channels which implies decisive factors over the channels, and to clarify the contrasts between channels to compare advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, the research is designed to collect the consumers' narrative of those who have used both channels in 3 months. Classifications are conducted with other researchers majoring consumer science. The results address how impressive experiences are constructed on each channel in three dimensions: product, information search, and the purchase-service dimension. These results are able to provide implications for offline and online retailers and directions for future research.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.359-380
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of the library use behavior and preferences of the elderly by exploring positive and negative experience factors in the use of public libraries by the elderly. To this end, the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) was applied and individual in-depth interviews were conducted with elderly people who use public libraries. Analysis of the collected data was conducted by applying the constant comparison method, and 12 categories of positive experience factors and 12 categories of negative experience factors were derived under four areas: data, service-program, environment-facility, and emotion. Based on these results, suggestions were made regarding public library services for the elderly.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.63-74
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• 2017

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature on casino services by investigating critical service failures using the critical incident technique (CIT) and provide effective recovery strategies that can be adopted in practice. Research design, data, and methodology - The data were collected from Asian casinos' HNI customers in China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. This is the first study that has investigated VIP casino customers in leading Asian countries. The research used the critical incident technique (CIT) collect and a total of 227 incidents were analyzed. Results - The results show that three main categories and eleven subcategories are deduced. The first group concerns casino service system failures. The second group relates to service providers' responses to VIP customer complaints. The last group covers employees' attitudes and behavior toward customers. Conclusions - First, the most serious service problem in casinos was the service providers' attitudes rather than the service system failures. Second, Tangible recovery strategies such as "all pay" and "additional comps" were proven to enhance a casino's image and lower customers' intentions to switch. Customers, however, preferred intangible recovery strategies such as considerate responses, reliable problem management, sincere apologies, and accurate explanations.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.304-314
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• 2023

The rapid development of digital technology is diversifying the fashion industry by influencing both the manufacturing processes and the characteristics of fashion products. Although various smart clothing technologies are being developed as part of the government's technology development policy, the number of smart clothing products available to consumers in stores remains very limited. To address this issue, this study analyzes the key attributes of smart clothing as expressed in consumer language. The CIT (Critical Incident Technique) research method was used, and data were collected through an online survey. The study focuses on identifying potential factors that may influence the development direction or strategy of smart clothing. By classifying past experiences and attitudes towards smart clothing into positive and negative categories, it was found that positive responses to smart clothing were heavily influenced by expectations from technology and convenience. Participants' experience with smart technology has had a positive impact on their evaluation of smart clothing. Consumers with negative attitudes towards smart clothing expressed expectations for new benefits resulting from technological development, and indicated that they would consider purchasing such clothing in the future when design and technology improve. Ultimately, this study provides a valuable reference for the development of smart clothing products in Korea by analyzing consumer experiences and acceptance conditions towards smart clothing.

• IE interfaces
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.339-352
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• 2007

Beyond SERVQUAL-based service quality research, we develop a measurement model of public service quality that would provide researchers and practitioners in the public sector with a foundation for systematic investigation and implementation. Firstly, we explore the attributes of public service quality that lead to customer satisfaction by using the critical incident technique (CIT). We identified four dimensions of public service qualities. We also found that the critical attributes of service quality differ according to the types of customers. Secondly, to achieve a high degree of empirical confidence, we conduct statistical tests and analyses on the classification scheme and on the attributes of service quality that we derived from the CIT analysis. Through these analyses, we could remove the redundancy among attributes and group the attributes into new constructs, which are mutually exclusive and exhaustive; we built a more sophisticated measurement model of service quality.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.1-27
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• 2002

본 연구는 Critical Incident Technique(CIT)를 이용하여 음식점에서 서비스 실패를 야기하는 결정적인 사건과 서비스 실패/복구수준과의 관계를 고찰해 보았다. 이와 더불어 불만족한 고객을 만족한 고객으로 전환시키는 데에 중요한 역할을 하는 고객이 바라는 복구와 점포 개선사항을 추가로 제시함으로써 실용적인 마케팅 접근을 시도하였다. 본 연구에서는 고객 불만족 원인이 서비스상품의 결함에 대부분 기인한다는 Hoffman et al. (1995)과 Tax et al. (1998)의 결과와는 달리 서비스 실패를 일으키는 주원인은 서비스제공자에게 있다는 흥미로운 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 그 동안 국내의 많은 서비스관련 연구들이 서비스 만족과 불만족에 대해 양적 (quantitative)으로 접근한 것과는 달리 본 연구는 질적(qualitative) 접근을 시도하였다. 또한 본 연구는 CIT를 이용한 최초의 서비스 복구에 대한 연구이며, 기존의 연구들이 단순히 서비스 실패의 유형을 범주화하고 복구의 종류를 알아보는 것에 그치고 있는 데 반해 본 연구에서는 고객이 바라는 복구종류와 서비스 제공자의 개선 사항, 서비스 실패를 경험한 고객들의 구전활동에 관한 조사결과와 전략적 시사점도 함께 제시함으로써, 일선 관리자들이 본 연구의 결과를 기업의 마케팅전략 수립에 효과적으로 활용이 가능하다는 점에서 그 의의가 크다고 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.11-17
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• 2008

Drawing on Herzberg's two-factor theory, this article suggests that visitors to rural tourism base their overall evaluation with an experience on their consideration of two types of aspects referred to as either 'motivators' and 'hygienes' by using the critical incident technique. 233 critical incidents described by 121 participants are categorized into three exclusive factors which are named as experiential factor, cognitive factor, and affective factor. The application of Herzberg's two-factor theory to rural tourism suggests 'satisfiers' to come from the experience-activity itself, experiential factor. While more peripheral elements constitute 'dissatisfiers', cognitive factor. The paper provides the advancement and broad application of Herzberg's theory to further understand rural tourists satisfaction.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.61-79
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• 2005

A critical incident technique(CIT) was employed to show the results of empirical findings regarding hotel services. The major purpose of this study was to describe and analyze service failures from the customers' point of view and thus suggest strategic implications for hotel service providers. Four-hundred sixteen service failure anecdotes from hotel customers were classified using Hoffman et al.'s(1995) approach. The CIT data showed the three major categories and eleven sub-categories and revealed that, in general, tangible recovery(e.g., upgrade, free meal, discount) was more effective than intangible one(e.g., explanation, canned apology, manager's apology). Interestingly, however, sincere apology seemed to be a better recovery strategy than other types of tangible recovery. Furthermore, the results showed that severity of service failure had its own impact on customers' perception regarding hotel's service recovery efforts. In particular, irrespective of service recovery, severity of service problem was negatively related to intention to repurchase. Managerial implications and future research agenda was also discussed.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.165-185
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• 2022

This study aims to identify leadership behaviors and expected competencies of supervisors that had a positive or negative impact on the performance of employees in a remote work environment. For the purpose of the study, 19 office employees with more than one-year work experience were interviewed, and the critical incident technique (CIT) was used to verify themes. The results of this study are as follows. First, the frequency of comments on leadership behavior of supervisors that positively affect work performance of employees in a remote work environment was high in the order of task-oriented, relationship-oriented, and change-oriented leadership behavior, and it was classified into 10 actions. Second, the frequency of comments on leadership behavior of supervisors that negatively affect work performance of employees in remote work environment was high in the order of task-oriented, relationship-oriented, and change-oriented leadership behavior, and it was classified into 9 behaviors. Further, the expected competencies of supervisors were classified into 13 categories in a remote work environment. Based on this research conclusions were drawn and suggestions were made for further studies.