Recent studies have shown that using social media is a new way of promoting user participation and understanding potential user needs for a service firm. However, user participation via social media might produce synergistic and interactive effects, including issues of social interaction with members and technical interaction with social media. The purpose of this study is to examine the imp…
This study adopts a dynamic Expectancy–Disconfirmation framework to investigate the evolving nature of user satisfaction across three product categories: durable goods, fast- moving consumer goods (FMCG), and digital products. A 25-day longitudinal experiment involving 128 participants was conducted, during which users engaged with their most recently purchased products and provided r…
Drawing upon affordance theory, this study positions artificial intelligence (AI) as a commercial service in ex- amining its influence on customer engagement in the hotel context. In particular, we seek to understand linkages between customer perceptions of AI service quality, AI customer satisfaction and engagement. Given the mul- tiplicity of services offered by service organisations, cu…
The present study is grounded in social exchange theory and resource exchange theory. By exploring customers’ satisfaction with chatbot services and their social media engagement, it examined the effects of responsiveness and a conversational tone in dialogic chatbot communication on customers. To test the proposed mediation model, we surveyed a representative sample of customers (N = 965)…