A Study on the Effects of Customers' Roles in the Service Recovery Process

서비스 실패와 회복과정에서 고객의 역할에 관한 연구

This study attempted to examine the role of customers in service recovery process. There have been an argument regarding whether the role of customer in service failure situation 'buffer' or 'deteriorate'. Thus, the role of customer such as relationship quality and customer participation was discussed in this research. According to the result of study, (1) customers' perceived recovery have positive effect on positive emotion significantly. (2) customers' perceived distributional justice and interactional justice positively affected encounter satisfaction in the of recovery justice variable. However, whereas procedure justice has no effect on encounter satisfaction directly, there was indirect effect through customers' positive emotion. (3) As a result of the analysis for the effect of perception of recovery justice on recovery satisfaction, the effect of interactional justice was significant only. Distributional and procedural justice have indirect effect on recovery satisfaction through positive emotion or encounter satisfaction. (4) Customers' positive emotion positively affected encounter satisfaction and recovery satisfaction. (5) Relationship quality negatively moderated the relationship between procedural justice and positive emotion while customer participation positively moderated two paths that distributional justice to encounter satisfaction and interactional justice to recovery satisfaction.

본 연구는 서비스 실패 상황에서 고객의 역할(관계의 질, 고객참여)이 회복공정성 지각에 따른 긍정적 감정, 회복과정에서의 접점만족, 회복만족에 어떤 영향력을 제공하면서 조절역할을 하는지 살펴보는 것이다. 기존의 서비스 실패와 회복에 대한 연구가 서비스 기업의 관점에서 제시되어 왔던 연구의 한계에서 벗어나 '고객의 역할(관계의 질, 고객참여)'이 서비스 실패와 회복에 이르는 과정에서 어떤 영향력을 제공하는지, 그리고 서비스 기업에게 어떤 완충역할을 할 수 있는지를 다차원적으로 살펴봄으로써 이론적, 실무적으로 의미있는 결과를 도출할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.