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Journal of Service Theory and Practice

Subject:
Strategy and Management
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited —
Emerald Publishing
ISSN:
2055-6225
Scimago Journal Rank:
90

2023

Volume 33
Issue 7 (Mar)Issue 5 (Aug)Issue 4 (Jun)Issue 3 (Apr)Issue 2 (Mar)Issue 1 (Feb)

2022

Volume 33
Issue 7 (Dec)
Volume 32
Issue 7 (Dec)Issue 6 (Nov)Issue 5 (Aug)Issue 4 (Jul)Issue 3 (Apr)Issue 2 (Mar)Issue 1 (Jan)

2021

Volume 31
Issue 6 (Oct)Issue 5 (Aug)Issue 4 (Jun)Issue 3 (Apr)Issue 2 (Feb)Issue 1 (Jan)

2020

Volume 30
Issue 6 (Nov)Issue 4/5 (Nov)Issue 3 (Jul)Issue 2 (May)Issue 1 (Apr)

2019

Volume 29
Issue 5/6 (Nov)Issue 4 (Nov)Issue 3 (Sep)Issue 2 (Aug)Issue 1 (Apr)

2018

Volume 28
Issue 6 (Nov)Issue 5 (Oct)Issue 4 (Aug)Issue 3 (May)Issue 2 (Mar)Issue 1 (Jan)

2017

Volume 27
Issue 6 (Oct)

2016

Volume 26
Issue 4 (Jul)Issue 3 (May)Issue 2 (Mar)Issue 1 (Jan)

2015

Volume 25
Issue 6 (Nov)Issue 5 (Sep)Issue 4 (Jul)Issue 3 (May)Issue 2 (Mar)Issue 1 (Jan)
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Towards a better understanding of volunteer engagement: self-determined motivations, self-expression needs and co-creation outcomes

Fernandes, Teresa; Matos, Manuel Aires de

2023 Journal of Service Theory and Practice

doi: 10.1108/jstp-09-2022-0215

Non-profit organizations (NPO) contribute significantly to the welfare of citizens and communities. Engagement in volunteering is crucial for sustaining volunteer motivation and for the effective and efficient functioning of NPO, with significant implications for society at large. Yet, literature on volunteer engagement (VE) is limited to date. Grounded on service-dominant logic, self-congruity theory and self-determination theory, this study aims to understand what motivates VE and how it may evolve into a co-creation process valuable to NPO and its stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachBased on survey data collected from 450 volunteers, working with a diverse set of NPO, a comprehensive model of drivers and outcomes of VE was empirically tested using PLS-SEM, considering the mediating role of volunteers' congruence with the core values of the NPO.FindingsThe impact of volunteers' perceived autonomy, competence and relatedness on VE and its subsequent role in volunteers' loyalty and extra-role engagement behaviors (i.e. co-development, influencing and mobilizing behaviors) were validated. Moreover, the study validates value congruence as an internalizing mediating mechanism in the engagement process, a role that has been implied but not empirically tested.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the engagement and volunteering literature, which despite an unprecedented parallel have developed almost independently, with limited reference to one another. As the nomological network of VE is still underexplored, the study extends the engagement literature to the volunteering sector, validating the key (but underexplored) role of self-determination needs and value congruence in driving VE and value co-creation behaviors. The study further adds to engagement research while addressing other actors' engagement beyond the customer–brand dyad. While adopting a seldom explored marketing perspective of VE, this study provides NPO valuable insights on how to manage and engage volunteers.
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Service robots and artificial morality: an examination of robot behavior that violates human privacy

Söderlund, Magnus

2023 Journal of Service Theory and Practice

doi: 10.1108/jstp-09-2022-0196

Service robots are expected to become increasingly common, but the ways in which they can move around in an environment with humans, collect and store data about humans and share such data produce a potential for privacy violations. In human-to-human contexts, such violations are transgression of norms to which humans typically react negatively. This study examines if similar reactions occur when the transgressor is a robot. The main dependent variable was the overall evaluation of the robot.Design/methodology/approachService robot privacy violations were manipulated in a between-subjects experiment in which a human user interacted with an embodied humanoid robot in an office environment.FindingsThe results show that the robot's violations of human privacy attenuated the overall evaluation of the robot and that this effect was sequentially mediated by perceived robot morality and perceived robot humanness. Given that a similar reaction pattern would be expected when humans violate other humans' privacy, the present study offers evidence in support of the notion that humanlike non-humans can elicit responses similar to those elicited by real humans.Practical implicationsThe results imply that designers of service robots and managers in firms using such robots for providing service to employees should be concerned with restricting the potential for robots' privacy violation activities if the goal is to increase the acceptance of service robots in the habitat of humans.Originality/valueTo date, few empirical studies have examined reactions to service robots that violate privacy norms.
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The demand-what-you-want strategy to service recovery: achieving high customer satisfaction with low service failure compensation using anchoring and precision effects

Kron, Nathalie; Björkman, Jesper; Ek, Peter; Pihlgren, Micael; Mazraeh, Hanan; Berggren, Benny; Sörqvist, Patrik

2023 Journal of Service Theory and Practice

doi: 10.1108/jstp-02-2023-0029

Previous research suggests that the compensation offered to customers after a service failure has to be substantial to make customer satisfaction surpass that of an error-free service. However, with the right service recovery strategy, it might be possible to reduce compensation size while maintaining happy customers. The aim of the current study is to test whether an anchoring technique can be used to achieve this goal.Design/methodology/approachAfter experiencing a service failure, participants were told that there is a standard size of the compensation for service failures. The size of this standard was different depending on condition. Thereafter, participants were asked how much they would demand to be satisfied with their customer experience.FindingsThe compensation demand was relatively high on average (1,000–1,400 SEK, ≈ $120). However, telling the participants that customers typically receive 200 SEK as compensation reduced their demand to about 800 SEK (Experiment 1)—an anchoring effect. Moreover, a precise anchoring point (a typical compensation of 247 SEK) generated a lower demand than rounded anchoring points, even when the rounded anchoring point was lower (200 SEK) than the precise counterpart (Experiment 2)—a precision effect.Implications/valueSetting a low compensation standard—yet allowing customers to actually receive compensations above the standard—can make customers more satisfied while also saving resources in demand-what-you-want service recovery situations, in particular when the compensation standard is a precise value.
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