Rise and fall of complainants’ desires: The role of pre-failure brand commitment and online service recovery satisfaction

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Highlights:

• After service failures, more and more dissatisfied customers complain on brands' social media sites.

• Complainants have pre-webcare desires for revenge and reparation to restore justice.

• Brand commitment drives both justice-restoration desires.

• Webcare satisfaction determines post-webcare intentions depending on complainants' pre-webcare desires/commitment.

• Complainants with high pre-webcare desires for revenge (reparation) react negatively (positively) to webcare satisfaction.

摘要

•After service failures, more and more dissatisfied customers complain on brands' social media sites.•Complainants have pre-webcare desires for revenge and reparation to restore justice.•Brand commitment drives both justice-restoration desires.•Webcare satisfaction determines post-webcare intentions depending on complainants' pre-webcare desires/commitment.•Complainants with high pre-webcare desires for revenge (reparation) react negatively (positively) to webcare satisfaction.

论文关键词:Service failure,Service recovery,Online complaining,Revenge,Reparation,Brand commitment

论文评审过程:Received 28 June 2018, Revised 10 January 2019, Accepted 27 February 2019, Available online 28 February 2019, Version of Record 20 March 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.02.029