Purpose – This study aims to examine the relationship between service providers' communication style and customer satisfaction and how service criticality and nature moderate this relationship. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology included systematic sampling of consumers of...

Purpose – This paper aims to report a study that focuses on the moderating role of involvement in the relationships between customer contact employees' customer orientation and service quality perceptions and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 869 consumers is drawn from...

Purpose – This paper aims to determine the importance of the human touch in customer service interactions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on two original studies using tech‐savvy respondents, utilizing a survey and scenario‐based research. Findings – The paper finds...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to produce up‐to‐date inventories for satisfaction and Likert scales that contain commonly used scale point descriptors and their respective mean scale values and standard deviations. Design/methodology/approach – All data were collected online...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating influence of attitude toward offshore call centers (OCCs) and brand image of the service provider firm on the relationships among perceived service quality (SQ), customer satisfaction (CS), complaint (CI) and repeat purchase (RP)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of complaint satisfaction, specifically to examine how contact employees should behave and which qualities they should possess. The study also aims to explore the comparability of results obtained from two laddering methods, as the...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the perceptions, attitudes and behaviour of the youth market for internet banking services (IBS). Design/methodology/approach – A survey was carried out to acquire data from 164 respondents. The respondents were competent computer users and studying...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to develop a conceptual model to examine the relationships among e‐service quality, consumer satisfaction, attitudes towards the web site and behavioural intentions in the context of content‐driven web sites. Design/methodology/approach – Data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of service quality and satisfaction on three consumer behavioral intentions, namely word‐of‐mouth, site revisit, and purchase intentions in the context of internet shopping. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve this...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how “green” attributes contribute to hotel customers' overall satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study helped generate a list of the attributes that contribute to overall satisfaction with hotel services. Then a Tetraclasse...