Stopping the spread: how blame attributions drive customer-to-customer misbehavior contagion and what frontline employees can do to curb it

I Danatzis, J Möller-Herm - Journal of Service Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Service encounters nowadays are increasingly characterized by customer-to-customer
(C2C) interactions where customers regularly become targets of other customers' …

[HTML][HTML] Customer misbehavior in access-based mobility services: An examination of prevention strategies

N Pieper, DM Woisetschläger - Journal of Business Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Customer misbehavior in access-based mobility services such as car sharing and public
transport deteriorates the quality and profitability of business models. Basing on organismic …

Understanding the role of customer incivility and supervisor monitoring in the relationship between customer orientation and frontline employees' emotional …

F Xie, X Zhang, J Ye, L Zhou, W Zhang… - Journal of Service Theory …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Based on the resource conservation theory, this research paper aims to evaluate
the positive impact of customer orientation on frontline employees' emotional exhaustion …

Not my circus, not my monkeys? Frontline employee perceptions of customer deviant behaviors and service firms' guardianship policies

PB Fennell, MP Lorenz… - Journal of Service …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent disruptions, labor shortages, and fiscal pressures, especially in retail service
environments, have necessitated and highlighted changes in the roles and responsibilities …

Channel-switching behaviour and customer deviance

K Mayr, C Teller - International Journal of Retail & Distribution …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Unacceptable behaviour in retailing–negative customer deviance (NCD) is rising,
damaging retailers financially. Current research investigates forms of NCD by addressing its …

Unpacking the relationship between customer citizenship behavior and dysfunctional customer behavior: the role of customer moral credits and entitlement

T Gong, CY Wang - Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose While the positive effects of customer citizenship behavior are well established,
research on its potential negative consequences is scarce. This study aims to examine the …

How do consumer-to-consumer interactions affect bystanders on corporate social media (CSM)?(In) civility in advocates' responses and complainant-bystander …

R Huang, S Ha - The Service Industries Journal, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The role of other consumers (ie bystanders and brand advocates) in webcare has been
underexplored in the setting of CSM. This study fills the void by portraying a dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Curbing customer-to-customer misbehavior contagion in the sharing economy

I Danatzis, J Möller-Herm, S Herm - Journal of Business Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The sharing economy has fundamentally transformed customers' lives. Providing short-term
access to resources, however, creates environments in which customers regularly become …

You want my loyalty? Treat me fairly! A study of Islamic banking customers in South Africa

M Roberts-Lombard, DJ Petzer - Journal of Islamic Marketing, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate possible drivers of loyalty amongst
Islamic banking customers in Gauteng, South Africa. We ponder the relationships of service …

Does employee intervention encourage or discourage the spread of dysfunctional customer behavior?

YS Huang, R Liu - Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Dysfunctional customer behavior (DCB) is costly and problematic for organizations.
This research seeks to understand how DCB spreads and how businesses can effectively …