Who gets the blame for service failures? Attribution of responsibility toward robot versus human service providers and service firms

X Leo, YE Huh - Computers in Human Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
… attribute responsibility toward service robots in such cases of service … the perceived
responsibility of humans versus robots in the service sector, as well as the perceived responsibility of …

Robots at work: People prefer—and forgive—service robots with perceived feelings.

KC Yam, YE Bigman, PM Tang, R Ilies… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
robotic blunders? Drawing from theories of anthropomorphism and mind perception, we
propose that people evaluate service robotsresponsibility of service robots when they fail, thus …

“My colleague is a robot”–exploring frontline employees' willingness to work with collaborative service robots

S Paluch, S Tuzovic, HF Holz, A Kies… - Journal of Service …, 2022 - emerald.com
… This research investigates frontline employee's perceptions of collaborative service robots
(… as service robots are established in the service environment, new areas of responsibility can …

Service robots, customers and service employees: what can we learn from the academic literature and where are the gaps?

VN Lu, J Wirtz, WH Kunz, S Paluch, T Gruber… - Journal of Service …, 2020 - emerald.com
… valuable because it highlights the perceived positive impact of service robots on co-creating …
increasing prevalence of service robots as part of their corporate digital responsibility (CDR) …

Replaced by a Robot: Service Implications in the Age of the Machine

F McLeay, VS Osburg, V Yoganathan… - Journal of Service …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
… For the purpose of this article, service robots are defined as “system-based autonomous and
… We focus on perceived innovativeness-responsibility fit in an attempt to develop a holistic …

[HTML][HTML] The emergence of service robots at restaurants: Integrating trust, perceived risk, and satisfaction

KH Seo, JH Lee - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
… [60]; also, trust can relieve the risk of responsibility from the robot’s malfunctioning [19,20].
Whenever humans face a high-risk and unpredictable situation, trust becomes a more …

The value of service robots from the hotel guest's perspective: A mixed-method approach

IY Lin, AS Mattila - International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2021 - Elsevier
perceived value of service robots from the guest’s perspective underscores the success of
service robot … guest perceptions of service robots in the context of full-service hotels. While the …

[HTML][HTML] Robots do not judge: service robots can alleviate embarrassment in service encounters

J Holthöwer, J Van Doorn - Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2023 - Springer
… of a service robot’s design in shaping perceptions of automated … service robots is largely
conceptual, we review empirical studies on the role of service robots across a number of service

Human staff vs. service robot vs. fellow customer: Does it matter who helps your customer following a service failure incident?

TH Ho, D Tojib, Y Tsarenko - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2020 - Elsevier
… failures, focal customers have less interest in learning how to rectify their problems
independently as they may perceive that service firms should take full responsibility for the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of the human-robot interaction in consumers' acceptance of humanoid retail service robots

CS Song, YK Kim - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
… The Retail Service Robot (RSR) is a humanoid robot that uses AI service automation to …
facilitate Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); (2) whether anxiety toward robots inhibits the relations …