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Service Problems and Recovery Stratégies: An Experiment
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This experiment examines the effectiveness of recovery stratégies after a service failure on customer loyalty and complaint intentions. Respondents encountered different core failures in ternis of problem severity (denial or delay) and criticality levels (high or low). The results suggest the effectiveness of service recovery strategies—assistance (fixing the problem) and/or compensation (defraying the costs incurred)—varied depending on the txpe of service, problem severity, and criticality levels. The implication is that recovery strategies need to be matched to the specific incident. Service firms should focus on avoiding or reducing core failures. Getting it right the first time is the best strategy. Résumé: La présente recherche examine au moyen d'une expérience l'efficacité de différentes stratégies de récupération sur la fidélité et les intentions de porter plainte de la clientèle à la suite d'une défaillance de service. Les participants ont été confrontés à différentes défaillances de service en termes de gravité (interruption du service ou délai) et de niveau critique (élevé ou faible). Les résultats indiquent que l'efficacité des stratégies de récupération—aide technique (résolution du problème) et/ou compensation financière (défraiement des coǔts encourus)—varie en fonction du genre de service, de la gravité du problème et des niveaux critiques. Les résultats de l'étude laissent supposer que les stratégies de récupération doivent ětre associées à un incident spécifique. Les entreprises de services doivent mettre l'accent sur l'évitement ou la réduction des défaillances. La meilleure stratégie consiste encore à donner le service correctement.
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- Authors
- Levesque, T. J., & McDougall, G. H. G.
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-37
- ISSN
- 0825-0383 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-4490
- OpenAlex
- W2056952650
- Cited by
- 273
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 9.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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