This study examines the influence of interaction degree on online shoppers’ satisfaction and behavioral intention in terms of service reappraisal (repurchase intention and the word-of-mouth intention) after the service failures occurred. In this s...
This study examines the influence of interaction degree on online shoppers’ satisfaction and behavioral intention in terms of service reappraisal (repurchase intention and the word-of-mouth intention) after the service failures occurred. In this study, we elaborated the evaluation factors about the recovery process focusing on the interactions between customers and shopping sites as well as the interactions between customers and employees, which is the greatest difference from the past studies. Also, we distinguished the satisfaction with service recovery experience and the overall satisfaction with the online retailer as a mediating role to explore the customers’ behavioral reactions in the service reevaluation process. The useful date collected from 265 respondents targeted to Chinese online shoppers and tested with the approach of structural equation model.
The analytical results show that comparing with the interactions between customers and shopping sites, the factors on the interactions between customers and employees play a more important role on satisfaction with recovery experience as a whole. Moreover, the efficiency of shopping site has no significant influence on customers’ satisfaction according to the result while compensation shows the greatest importance on it. It is suggested that the online shopping environment comparatively has growed maturely. At the meanwhile, it left an implication that online retailers should give great importance to the compensation system during the recovery process. We hope the results of this study can provide a valuable reference for the online retailers to deal with the service failure when it happens.