What makes an AI device human-like? The role of interaction quality, empathy and perceived psychological anthropomorphic characteristics in the acceptance of …

C Pelau, DC Dabija, I Ene - Computers in Human Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Intelligent AI devices have become a common presence in the business landscape, offering
a wide range of services, from the medical sector to the hospitality industry. From an …

Service robots in full-and limited-service restaurants: Extending technology acceptance model

WK Kao, YSS Huang - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2023 - Elsevier
As the role of service robots has become increasingly important in service encounters,
existing literature has widely adopted the technology acceptance model to understand …

Employer branding: A strategy to enhance organizational performance

A Azhar, N Rehman, N Majeed, S Bano - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2024 - Elsevier
Employer branding has gained considerable interest in theory and practice, however,
current hotel management literature has neglected to investigate the dimensional influence …

Service productivity: a systematic review of a dispersed research area

J Hofmeister, DK Kanbach, J Hogreve - Management review quarterly, 2023 - Springer
The service productivity literature has grown remarkably over the last two decades and has
gathered substantial knowledge. However, with the gradual acceleration of knowledge …

Resource integration and dynamic capability of frontline employee during COVID-19 pandemic: from value creation and engineering management perspectives

S Chatterjee, R Chaudhuri, VI González… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
The cornerstone of any successful organizations is the frontline employees. Frontline
employees (FLEs) are always in action at the frontline of the business. They do not operate …

You're driving me crazy! How emotions elicited by negative driver behaviors impact customer outcomes in last mile delivery

N Masorgo, S Mir, AR Hofer - Journal of Business Logistics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the growth of e‐commerce and associated home deliveries, understanding the role of
drivers in shaping the customer experience in last‐mile delivery is now more crucial than …

To be or not to be: a review of the (un) ethical salespeople literature

A Anand, M Bowen, D Rangarajan - Journal of Business & Industrial …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Despite the prominence of ethics in mainstream marketing and sales literature,
studies on the role of unethical sales practices remain sparse. As a result, we sought to fill …

Digitalization in B2B marketing: omnichannel management from a PLS-SEM approach

J Alonso-Garcia, F Pablo-Marti… - Journal of Business & …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish a reference model that will allow us to
understand the factors that influence the omnichannel management of an organization in a …

The golden mean: Research on the mechanism of customer participation in employee service innovation

D Liu, S Han, J Zhang - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Service innovation is of importance in achieving business success. This study aims
to understand how customer participation affects employees' service innovation through …

Investigating the customer trust in artificial intelligence: The role of anthropomorphism, empathy response, and interaction

NTK Chi, N Hoang Vu - CAAI Transactions on Intelligence …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are observed in different industries including the
services, where the impressive changing pace is boosted by the technological advances in …