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- Publisher
- Springer Journals
- Copyright
- Copyright © Academy of Marketing Science 2000
- Subject
- Economics / Management Science; Business/Management Science, general; Marketing; Social Sciences, general
- ISSN
- 0092-0703
- eISSN
- 1552-7824
- DOI
- 10.1177/0092070300281008
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Critics have suggested that delighting the customer “raises the bar” of customer expectations, making it more difficult to satisfy the customer in the next purchase cycle and hurting the firm in the long run. The authors explore this issue by using a mathematical model of delight, based on assumptions gathered from the customer satisfaction literature. Although delighting the customer heightens repurchase expectations and makes satisfying the customer more difficult in the future, and the delighting firm is injured by raised customer expectations, the (nondelighting) competition is hurt worse through customer attrition to the delighting firm. If customers forget delighting incidents to some degree from occasion to occasion, the delighting firm suffers if it is in a position to take customers from the competition. If taking customers from the competition is difficult, the delighting firm actually benefits from customer forgetting, because the same delighting experience can be repeated again, with the same effect.
Journal
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science – Springer Journals
Published: Dec 1, 2000
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Consumer Satisfaction; Focal Firm; American Market Association; Repurchase Intention