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How to Improve Value Creation by Service Interaction: The Role of Customer-Environment Fit and Efficacy.

ABSTRACT: Under the service-dominant logic, the interactions between employee and customer create opportunities for value creation. Yet, prior research has ignored the underlying mechanism by which service interaction might improve customer value creation. This study develops a conceptual model of customer-environment fit (C-E fit) from the perspective of customer and conducts empirical research to examine the mediating effect of C-E fit between service interaction and customer value creation and the associated boundary conditions. With data from 435 customer questionnaires, the results show that service interaction has a positive effect on value creation (utilitarian and hedonic); customer-product fit and customer-employee fit act as mediators between service interaction and value creation; customer self-efficacy moderates the mediating effects of two mediators on the relationship between service interaction and value creation; customer other-efficacy only moderates the mediating effects of customer-employee fit on the relationship between service interaction and value creation. Theoretical and practical implications are further discussed.

SUBMITTER: Hong L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7311637 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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How to Improve Value Creation by Service Interaction: The Role of Customer-Environment Fit and Efficacy.

Hong Liang L Yu Hongyan H Wang Tingyi T

Frontiers in psychology 20200617

Under the service-dominant logic, the interactions between employee and customer create opportunities for value creation. Yet, prior research has ignored the underlying mechanism by which service interaction might improve customer value creation. This study develops a conceptual model of customer-environment fit (C-E fit) from the perspective of customer and conducts empirical research to examine the mediating effect of C-E fit between service interaction and customer value creation and the asso ...[more]

PMID: 32625144

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How to Improve Value Creation by Service Interaction: The Role of Customer-Environment Fit and Efficacy.

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