On the relationship between customer participation and satisfaction: two frameworks

Emerald - Tập 8 Số 3 - Trang 206-219 - 1997
Deborah L. Kellogg1, William E. Youngdahl2, David E. Bowen2
1University of Colorado, Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
2Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, Glendale, Arizona, USA

Tóm tắt

Presents a programme of research from which a typology of service customers’ quality assurance behaviours was developed. The typology’s four behaviours define the broad range of service customers’ participation in service quality assurance. Examines the relationship between these behaviours and satisfaction. Presents an initial conceptualization of a service customer’s value chain constructed from these behaviours. Provides implications for services marketing, human resource management and service operations. In sum, the two conceptual frameworks presented in this research add to researchers’ and practitioners’ understanding of how customer participation in service delivery is related to satisfaction.

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