Customer behavior and adoption · Cross-sectional firm survey with multivariate modeling of adoption determinants.
The adoption of customer service improvement practices
Mary J. Bitner, Amy L. Ostrom, Felicia N. Morgan (2013). The adoption of customer service improvement practices. Marketing Letters. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-013-9263-0
Plain-English take
Management support, customer orientation, and organizational capabilities were associated with adoption and implementation depth.
How much weight to give this
2/5 Observational or survey evidence; interpret as association
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Cross-sectional firm survey with multivariate modeling of adoption determinants.
Organizations evaluating or implementing customer-service improvement practices.
Comparison details need confirmation in the full paper.
Only the publisher page was checked; full-text methods are not established.
Double-blind? Blinding was not established from the publisher page; this is not evidence that blinding was or was not used.
Research question
What the authors investigated
The adoption of customer service improvement practices?
Design
Cross-sectional firm survey with multivariate modeling of adoption determinants.
Sample and setting
Organizations evaluating or implementing customer-service improvement practices.
Reported result
What the study found
Management support, customer orientation, and organizational capabilities were associated with adoption and implementation depth.
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Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Survey and cross-sectional design limit causal claims; self-reported implementation and broad practice categories may introduce measurement bias. The accessible publisher page was used for this listing; correction history was not independently checked.
Possible founder application
Use as a bounded example of the adoption of customer service improvement practices; compare its context and design with your own market before applying its result.
Evidence access
Publisher article page; full-text availability varies and was not established in this review.
Crossref and Springer DOI record identify a peer-reviewed empirical study of organizational adoption of customer-service practices. Publisher page was directly retrieved; detailed full-text methods were not independently verified.
If only an abstract or metadata was available, the profile is limited to claims supported there. A paper's paywall does not change its evidentiary status, but it limits what we can substantiate from accessible text.