It has been argued that the physical environment is an interesting issue in service marketing. And It is commonly known that the physical environment influences customer's emotional response. Specially, Service provider is a primary component in the p...
It has been argued that the physical environment is an interesting issue in service marketing. And It is commonly known that the physical environment influences customer's emotional response. Specially, Service provider is a primary component in the physical environment. But The research on service provider is insufficient even though service provider is a very important component like this. And It is commonly known that the customer's emotion is a primary role in the customer's purchasing process.
This research investigates the effect of the service provider attributes to customer's emotional response and attitude.
Specially, a conceptual model is presented that links service provider attributes(mutual understanding, extra attention, authenticity, competence, civility and similarity), customer's emotion to the service provider and customer's attitude to the store.
The proposed model was tested on the software LISREL. Good of fit index(GFI) and root mean wquare residual, also indicated that the overall fir is very good(GFI= .98, AGFI= .85, RMR= .038). In the test of hypotheses, mutual understanding, extra attention, authenticity, competence, civility and similarity had a significant influence on the customer's positive emotion to the service provider. And mutual understanding, civility and similarity had a significant influence on the customer's negative emotion to the service provider. And customer's emotion had a significant influence on customer's attitude to the store.
Findings of this study imply that the service provider attributes can become prior variable of customer's emotional response.
Therefor Service marketer must put weigh in service provider for enhancement of customer's positive emotion and weakening of customer's negative emotion.