The Direct, Indirect, and Conditional Effects of a Foreign Employee's Accent on Customer Participation in Services

Author(s)
David Bourdin, Christina Sichtmann
Abstract

In three studies, we show that semployee accent directly, indirectly (through intelligibility and trust), and/or conditionally affects customer participation (CP) in services positively or negatively, depending on the type of accent and its valence, the customer’s need for interaction, and the type of CP, i.e. voluntary, mandatory, or replaceable CP.

Organisation(s)
Department of Marketing and International Business
External organisation(s)
FHWien der WKW
Volume
November 2020
Pages
473-484
No. of pages
12
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15444/GMC2020.04.07.01
Publication date
11-2020
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
502052 Business administration, 502020 Market research
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/72a50908-9dd6-4a8d-a602-b579edf38a2e