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Service Recovery and Fairness Perceptions in Collectivist and Individualist Contexts
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As in other social exchanges, cultural norms and values are likely to influence customers’ perceptions of fairness and satisfaction with the service recovery process. This study contrasts the impact of two recovery attributes (compensation and explanation) on customers’ postrecovery perceptions in a cross-cultural context (East-Asia versus United States). The results from this experimental study indicate that compensation seems to drive customers’ fairness perceptions, in particular with American consumers. Offering an explanation for the failure had a positive impact on customer perceptions regardless of the customer’s cultural orientation. Finally, the study’s findings show that perceived fairness is directly linked to postrecovery satisfaction.
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“Many service recovery studies have pointed out that customer reactions to service failure depend on what is done to fix problems (outcomes), as well as how they are resolved (processes) (e.g., Mattila and Patterson 2004;Sparks and McColl-Kennedy 2001).”
From Recovery Voice and Satisfaction After Service Failure: An Experimental Investigation of Mediating and Moderating Factors (2007) · cites this paper as Mattila and Patterson 2004
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mattila, A. S., & Patterson, P. G.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Venue
- Journal of Service Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-05
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 336-346
- ISSN
- 1094-6705 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7379
- OpenAlex
- W2153088094
- Cited by
- 325
- References
- 44
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- FWCI
- 13.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Service Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Service and Product Innovation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › AI in Service Interactions
- Keywords
- service recovery, perceived fairness, compensation, explanation, collectivist culture, individualistic culture, cross-cultural comparison, East Asia, United States, customer satisfaction, cultural values
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