Market oriented learning and customer value enhancement through service recovery management
Managing Service Quality: An International Journal
ISSN: 0960-4529
Article publication date: 1 October 2004
Issue publication date: 1 October 2004
Abstract
While recovering from service failures is often viewed as an operational concern, service providers can also adopt a strategic and conceptual service vision for managing their service recovery. This paper discusses how the management of service failures can be utilised as a catalyst to effectively initiate organization‐wide learning and can serve as a reflection of the firm's market orientation to enhance value. Failure‐recovery, at its inception, acts as an external‐to‐internal trigger that initiates numerous changes (innovations) – operational changes, strategic changes and conceptual changes. These changes guide the implementation of various value enhancing innovations throughout the entire organization and positively affect the firm's service vision and mission.
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Citation
La, K.V. and Kandampully, J. (2004), "Market oriented learning and customer value enhancement through service recovery management", Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 14 No. 5, pp. 390-401. https://doi.org/10.1108/09604520410557994
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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