• DocumentCode
    3324683
  • Title

    Research on the effect of service guarantee on customer satisfaction

  • Author

    Li Xin ; Bian Guo-li ; Bai Ai-zheng

  • Author_Institution
    Beijing Inst. of Petrochem. Technol., Beijing
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    10-12 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    747
  • Lastpage
    752
  • Abstract
    As a method to effectively improve the customerspsila satisfaction, service guarantee should be applied in more and more service companies. This study is focus on the effect of service guarantee on the customer satisfaction, the investigation of the relationship among service guarantee, customer expectation, perceived risk and perceived value. Four attributes of service guarantee such as restrictiveness, appropriateness, confidence and convenience are arranged as the customer expectation, perceived risk and perceived value are presented as the mediating variables. Based on the background of domestic catering industry, this study has investigated the effects of service guarantee on customer satisfaction. The results show that a successful service guarantee should be less restrictive in conditions, reliable and concise in contents, appropriate in promise. Finally, we bring forward some suggestions for company marketing.
  • Keywords
    catering industry; customer satisfaction; risk management; customer expectation; customer satisfaction; domestic catering industry; perceived risk; service guarantee; Chemical technology; Conference management; Costs; Customer satisfaction; Engineering management; Equations; Hydrogen; Industrial relations; Petrochemicals; Technology management; customer satisfaction; perceived value; service guarantee; structural equation modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management Science and Engineering, 2008. ICMSE 2008. 15th Annual Conference Proceedings., International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2387-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2388-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSE.2008.4668996
  • Filename
    4668996