Title | Customer orientation of service employees in family businesses in the hotel sector |
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Type | Journal article |
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Authors | González-Porras, J.L., Ruiz-Alba, J. and Guzmán-Parra, V. |
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Abstract | The business interactions between front-line employees and customers are crucial to evaluating service quality and for business performance. A gap has been identified in the literature on both customer orientation of service employees (COSE) and family businesses (FBs). These two concepts have never been studied together before. This study presents a concept that develops a theoretical model based on Hennig-Thurau (2004). This model drives research about the COSE and FBs in the hotel sector. The two main contributions are: (1) electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) is proposed as a consequence of COSE within FBs and (2) a questionnaire has been developed from relevant subscales to measure COSE and the two possible consequences derived from it (Customer Satisfaction and eWOM). A database from Iberic Balance Analysis System (SABI) has been selected to study these variables in the hotel sector, and it will be used in a future empirical study that is expected to provide support for the theory. |
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Keywords | Customer Orientation; Hotel Sector; eWOM; Customer Satisfaction; Family Business. |
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Journal | Revista de Estudios Empresariales. Segunda época |
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Journal citation | 2, pp. 73-85 |
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ISSN | 1988-9046 |
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Year | 2018 |
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Publisher | Universidad de Jaen, Servicio de Publicaciones |
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Publisher's version | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.17561/ree.v2018n2.4 |
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Web address (URL) | https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/REE/article/view/3998 |
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Publication dates |
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Published | 23 Jan 2019 |
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License | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
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