Services are characterized by simultaneous occurrence of purchase and provision, and therefore, recognized as industry including products, and studies on services occupy the essential part for successful marketing.
The main objective of this study ...
Services are characterized by simultaneous occurrence of purchase and provision, and therefore, recognized as industry including products, and studies on services occupy the essential part for successful marketing.
The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of service authenticity that costumers perceive in using services on the relationship quality, and the relation between them, and it also drew a study model from a previous study and set several hypotheses. Hence, it attempted to understand the relation between service personnel authenticity, service costumer orientation, service consistency and service constructive authenticity and emotional responses and relationship quality, around the authenticity which has been relatively ignored by previous ones on the relationship quality of beauty services.
For an empirical analysis, a self-reporting survey was conducted by administering questionnaires to both males and females in their 20s-50s, who have experienced beauty services. Of 635 copies collected, a total of 611 copies excluding 24 copies containing insincere responses were used in the analysis. The hypotheses were tested by conducting frequency analysis, correlation analysis, descriptive statistical analysis and exploratory factor analysis, with SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 25.0.
The main findings can be summarized:
First, the effect of authenticity perceived by consumers on the relationship quality was examined to show that costumer orientation and constructive authenticity have effects on customer reliability, while personnel authenticity, service consistency and constructive authenticity have influences on customer commitment
Second, the effect of authenticity perceived by consumers on emotional responses was analyzed to demonstrate that service consistency, costumer orientation and constructive authenticity have effects on emotional responses.
Third, costumers' emotional responses after beauty services were found to have an effect on customer reliability and commitment.
Fourth, customer reliability, trust in beauty service formed by experiences was found to have an effect on customer commitment accompanying constant use behavior
Fifth, constructive authenticity was found to have a more partial mediating effect on emotional responses than personnel authenticity, service consistency and costumer orientation did.
Sixth, how the effect of authenticity perceived by consumers on the relationship quality is varied depending on different store types was examined to exhibit that costumer orientation does not have any effect on the costumer reliability and commitment, for franchisees, while the service consistency has no effect on the costumer reliability, for independent stores.
According to the results, any services are taken for granted by consumers in the process of the whole service, with the constructive authenticity being an important variable. The trust formed by affirmative correlations based on the service authenticity perceived by beauty service consumers may seem to allow previous experiences-based committed relationship to be continued and maintained for a long time.
Through this study, it was confirmed that service authenticity is an important factor in inducing the growth of beauty service companies by maintaining stable and continuous relationships with beauty service companies, and read trends in service authenticity, an invisible inner service. Unlike studies that have focused on external marketing, it is expected to be used for external marketing of beauty service companies.