This pitch research letter (PRL) applies the pitch template developed by Faff (2015) to an academic project on customer loyalty and customer participation in the service recovery process in the hotel industry of Pakistan. The pitch template helped the pitchers to identify the core elements that...

Empathy as an influencing factor of consumer behaviour has mostly been analysed from an empathetic employee's perspective. Empirical investigations into customer empathy in the context of failed service interactions are still scarce. This study investigates customer-employee reciprocity related...