The DOI matches its Crossref record; 18 of the 18 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Customer-Employee Rapport in Service Relationships
Abstract
Relationships are an important aspect of doing business, and few businesses can survive without establishing solid relationships with their customers. Although the marketing literature suggests that personal relationships can be important to service firms, little specificity has been provided as to which relational aspects should receive attention. In this study, the authors examine one specific aspect of customer-employee relationships, rapport, that they believe may be particularly salient in service businesses characterized by a high amount of interpersonal interactions. Rapport has received relatively little attention in the marketing literature; the goal of this study is to fill this gap in the literature. In two different service contexts, the authors find support for two empirically distinct dimensions of rapport. They also find a positive relationship between these dimensions and satisfaction, loyalty intent, and word-of-mouth communication. They conclude by suggesting future research directions for further academic inquiry of rapport in service contexts.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
Fornell, C., & Larcker, D. F. (1981) · Journal of Marketing Research · doi:10.2307/3151312 · Cited by 109,314
Evaluating structural equation models with unobservable variables and measurement error
Fornell, C., & Larcker, D. F. (1981) · Journal of Marketing Research · doi:10.1177/002224378101800104 · Cited by 109,190
Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach
Anderson, J. C., & Gerbing, D. W. (1988) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.103.3.411 · Cited by 41,941
On the Evaluation of Structural Equation Models
Bagozzi, R. P., & Yi, Y. (1988) · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · doi:10.1007/bf02723327 · Cited by 26,163
Comparative fit indexes in structural models.
Bentler, P. M. (1990) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.107.2.238 · Cited by 25,266
A Paradigm for Developing Better Measures of Marketing Constructs
Churchill, G. A. (1979) · Journal of Marketing Research · doi:10.1177/002224377901600110 · Cited by 16,549
A Cognitive Model of the Antecedents and Consequences of Satisfaction Decisions
Oliver, R. L. (1980) · Journal of Marketing Research · doi:10.1177/002224378001700405 · Cited by 14,494
The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality
Zeithaml, V. A., Berry, L. L., & Parasuraman, A. (1996) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.2307/1251929 · Cited by 12,003
The Service Encounter: Diagnosing Favorable and Unfavorable Incidents
Bitner, M. J., Booms, B. H., & Tetreault, M. S. (1990) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.2307/1252174 · Cited by 4,860
Relationship Quality in Services Selling: An Interpersonal Influence Perspective
Crosby, L. A., Evans, K. R., & Cowles, D. (1990) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.1177/002224299005400306 · Cited by 4,763
Construct Validity: A Review of Basic Issues and Marketing Practices
Peter, J. P. (1981) · Journal of Marketing Research · doi:10.2307/3150948 · Cited by 1,189
The nature of rapport and its nonverbal correlates
Tickle-Degnen, L., & Rosenthal, R. (1990) · Psychological Inquiry · doi:10.1207/s15327965pli0104_1 · Cited by 960 · cited 4×
“Enjoyable Interaction The enjoyable interaction component of rapport is comparable to what Tickle-Degnen and Rosenthal (1990) term “positivity,” described as a feeling of care and friendliness, in their discussion of rapport.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialEncounter Satisfaction versus Overall Satisfaction versus Quality: The Customer's Voice
Bitner, M. J., & Hubbert, A. R. (1994) · Service Quality: New Directions in Theory and Practice · doi:10.4135/9781452229102.n3 · Cited by 852
Coordinated movement and rapport in teacher–student interactions
Bernieri, F. J. (1988) · Journal of Nonverbal Behavior · doi:10.1007/bf00986930 · Cited by 590
Development of a Taxonomy of Services to Gain Strategic Marketing Insights
Bowen, J. (1990) · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · doi:10.1177/009207039001800104 · Cited by 397
Distinguishing between service relationships and encounters.
Gutek, B. A., Bhappu, A. D., Liao-Troth, M. A., & Cherry, B. (1999) · Journal of Applied Psychology · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.84.2.218 · Cited by 346
Nonverbal synchrony and rapport: analysis by the cross-lag panel technique
LaFrance, M. (1979) · Social Psychology Quarterly · doi:10.2307/3033875 · Cited by 286
Group rapport: posture sharing as a nonverbal indicator
Lafrance, M., & Broadbent, M. (1976) · Group & Organization Studies · doi:10.1177/105960117600100307 · Cited by 222
Cited by
Hennig-Thurau, T., Gwinner, K. P., & Gremler, D. D. (2002) · Journal of Service Research · doi:10.1177/1094670502004003006 · Cited by 2,301
Self-citationRelationship quality as a predictor of B2B customer loyalty
Rauyruen, P., & Miller, K. E. (2007) · Journal of Business Research · doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2005.11.006 · Cited by 1,123
Hennig-Thurau, T., Groth, M., Paul, M., & Gremler, D. D. (2006) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.1509/jmkg.70.3.058 · Cited by 1,049
Self-citationService design for experience-centric services
Zomerdijk, L. G., & Voss, C. A. (2010) · Journal of Service Research · doi:10.1177/1094670509351960 · Cited by 960
Customer experience challenges: Bringing together digital, physical and social realms
Bolton, R. N., McColl-Kennedy, J. R., Cheung, L., Gallan, A., Orsingher, C., Witell, L., & Zaki, M. (2018) · Journal of Service Management · doi:10.1108/josm-04-2018-0113 · Cited by 849
Metadata
- Authors
- Gremler, D. D., & Gwinner, K. P.
- Venue
- Journal of Service Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-08
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 82-104
- ISSN
- 1094-6705 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7379
- OpenAlex
- W2160783530
- Cited by
- 1,148
- References
- 18
- FWCI
- 19.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.