Comparing the diffusion of online service recovery in small and large organisations
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2006
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A key concern organisations face is how to incorporate Internet tools into their marketing communications mix. Where and how should companies invest their human, technological and financial resources? This paper explores a subset of this problem, online complaining and electronic customer service. It applies diffusion of innovation as a theoretical framework to investigate organisational implementation of email technology and explain the outcome of annual customer service surveys in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The results add to the small body of research on electronic service recovery by extending diffusion of innovations to email service recovery and underscoring the importance of adoption phases, particularly for SMEs. Larger companies provide more channels for submitting complaints, which represents an early phase of adoption. There was little difference in how large and small companies respond to online complaints, a later phase of adoption. |
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Taylor & Francis |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/26221/1/26221.pdf DOI:10.1080/13527260600719790 Neale, Larry, Murphy, Jamie, & Scharl, Arno (2006) Comparing the diffusion of online service recovery in small and large organisations. Journal of Marketing Communications, 12(3), pp. 165-181. |
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Copyright 2006 Taylor & Francis |
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QUT Business School; School of Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations |
Palavras-Chave | #150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations) #Electronic customer service #SMEs #service recovery #electronic mail #diffusion of innovations |
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Journal Article |