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A Theoretical Study of Service Recovery Strategies

서비스실패 회복을 위한 복합적 보상 믹스 연구 : 재서비스와 보상적 할인을 중심으로

  • Received : 2017.10.31
  • Accepted : 2017.12.22
  • Published : 2017.12.29

Abstract

Designing cost-effective service recovery strategies mix has been recognized one of important issues by both service researchers and practitioners. In spite of the rising interest in them, there has been scarce studies on them. In this paper, we try to find cost-effective service recovery strategies mix via game-theoretic modeling. Especially, we focus on the possible incentives such as voucher type reward and service re-performance which have different cost structure. We investigated three questions about the topics as follows:(1) Should the service firm use the possible incentive scheme such as voucher and service re-performance for service recovery?, (2) How much voucher and service re-performance is adequate for service recovery under diverse service failure severity level?, (3) How much voucher and service re-performance is adequate for service recovery under diverse threshold level to make the customer repurchase? The results are as follows:(1) The use of both voucher and service re-performance for service recovery results in greater surplus for the service firm. (2) The higher gets the service failure severity level, the higher total incentives are required in the equilibrium. As service failure severity level gets higher, higher level of discount might be more useful to the service firm. However, service re-performance should be cut down above some critical level of service failure severity in the equilibrium. (3) The higher gets the threshold level to make the customer repurchase, the higher incentives are required in the equilibrium, and the higher portion of voucher incentive is required relative to that of service re-performance in the equilibrium.

효과적인 서비스실패 회복 전략을 모색하는 기업이 증가하면서 복합적 서비스회복 전략을 사용하는 기업이 종종 목격되고 있다. 그런데 서비스실패 회복 전략에 관한 대부분의 연구는 단일 회복 전략에 집중하고 있어 현실 세계에서 목격되고 있는 보상적 할인과 재서비스 등 서로 다른 비용구조를 지닌 복합적 서비스회복 전략을 충분히 조명하지 못하고 있다. 이러한 문제의식을 토대로, 이 연구에서는 기존고객에 대한 인센티브를 조명한 Biyalogorsky, Gerstner, and Libai(2001) 모형을 서비스실패 회복 인센티브를 조명한 Zhu, Sivakumar, and Parasuraman(2004) 모형과 접목한 게임모형을 통해 서비스실패 상황에서 서비스회복을 위한 보상적 할인과 재서비스 등 서로 다른 인센티브의 적절한 배합구조는 어떻게 형성하는 것이 유리한지, 서비스실패 심각성이나 재구매에 필요한 최소만족요구수준이 달라질 때 이러한 균형은 어떤 영향을 받게 되는지 등을 살펴보는 이론적 연구를 시도하였다. 이 연구의 주요 발견점은 다음과 같다: (1)서비스업체는 서비스실패 회복 전략으로 보상적 할인과 재서비스 함께 고려함으로써 이윤을 증대시킬 수 있다. (2)서비스업체가 서비스실패 회복을 통해 고객 유지를 도모하는 경우, 서비스실패 심각성이 일정 수준 이하일 때는 서비스실패에 따른 효용감소가 심할수록 보상적 할인과 재서비스 수준을 늘리는 것이 바람직하지만, 서비스 실패 심각성이 일정 수준 이상일 때는 서비스실패에 따른 효용감소가 심할수록 보상적 할인만 늘리고 재서비스 수준은 줄이는 것이 바람직하다. (3)고객 유지에 필요한 최소만족수준이 높을수록 총 보상 수준을 높이되, 총 보상 중 보상적 할인 비중을 높이는 것이 바람직하다.

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