Digital technologies are increasingly used for communication between service personnel and customers. These digital service encounters bring along two changes: First, diverse digital channels such as text, audio, or video communication vary in the perceived media richness and perceived social presence of the counterpart. Second, digital channels allow service providers to employ service personn...

Whether they know it or not, firms interact with lying consumers on a daily basis. However, surprisingly little is known about consumer behavior and its role in service encounters. Based two empirical studies of 2,976 lies, the study sought to explore by developing testing comprehensive conceptual framework encompassing motives for lying, characteristics lie, outcomes consumers. Study 1 explore...

Advisors providing non-commercial service encounters are neither trained nor explicitly incentivized to persuade the advisee. However, a whole range of encounters may benefit from enhanced persuasiveness to prevent the advisee from taking counterproductive decisions. Persuasion literature from the field of social psychology points to the persuadee’s involvement as a central factor of persuasive...

BACKGROUND Enhancing service efficiency and quality has always been one of the most important factors to heighten competitiveness in the health care service industry. Thus, how to utilize information technology to reduce work load for staff and expeditiously improve work efficiency and healthcare service quality is presently the top priority for every healthcare institution. In this fast changi...

With the advancement of technology, many aspects of the face-to-face interpersonal dynamics in service encounters between sellers and customers have been replaced with technology-based Web interfaces. This paper develops and tests a model of customer satisfaction with technology mediated service encounters utilizing the suggestions of Meuter et al. [43] and the factors proposed by Jarvenpaa and...