Willing to wait for it or waste no time? How relationship status and cognitive rigidity affect waits for service delivery
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Waits for service are an inevitable part of the service delivery process. Across three decades of research, the field has typically assumed that consumers will have similar reactions to waiting. Instead, this thesis uses four studies to show that reactions to waiting are impacted by a consumer’s relationship status. Specifically, people who are single are shown to be more likely to cancel a request for service if they must wait, when compared with people in romantic relationships. This occurs because partnered consumers have higher sensitivity towards sunk costs in consumption, whereas single consumers have lower sensitivity towards sunk costs.
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| ID Code: | 236971 |
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (PhD) |
| Supervisor: | Mathmann, Frank & Greer, Dominique |
| Keywords: | Service research, Relationship status, Cancellation, Waiting, Waits for service, Marketing research, Field Theory |
| DOI: | 10.5204/thesis.eprints.236971 |
| Pure ID: | 118844019 |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Business & Law Current > Schools > School of Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations |
| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
| Deposited On: | 16 Dec 2022 01:52 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2023 04:14 |
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