Söderlund, Magnus; Oikarinen, Eeva-Liisa - In: European Journal of Marketing 55 (2021) 13, pp. 94-121
Purpose: Firms have begun to introduce virtual agents (VAs) in service encounters, both in online and offline environments. Such VAs typically resemble human frontline employees in several ways (e.g. the VAs may have a gender and a name), which indicates the presence of an assumption by VA...