THE IMPACT OF E-SERVICES FAILURES AND CUSTOMER
COMPLAINTS ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE CUSTOMER
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT.
Yooncheoug Cho, Hawaii Pacific University
1m, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Roxanne Hitz, New Jersey Insitute of Technology
ABSTRACT
Handling customer complaints has become &
strategie concem in eetronic commerce
Customer Relationship Management (eCRM).
‘The purposes ofthis study are to (a) explore the
major causes of customer ccmplai's, comparing
nine and instore environments nd) exmine
how customer complaints are diferently perceived
based on the types of service failures. The Justice
Dimensions with Complaint Handling famewark
proposed by Tax, Brown, and Chandrasekaran
(1998) are applied. in’ his study” for the
classification of service fille types. The data
‘were collected from online customer feedback
publicized on Inemet webstes and the shopping
log data reported by selected consumer panels
‘The research identified that he impact of sevice
failure with the justice dimension affects
estomers’ propensity to complain in the online
shopping environment. Further, the study
‘mpasizes that successful sevice management
the core of ecommerce exstomer relationship
‘management (CRM).
INTRODUCTION
Handling customer complaints and managing
customer serve “have become crv for
Exetronic Customer Relationship Management (=
CRM), Previous studies (Cho, In, Hilt, and
Frmstad 2002; Jults, Craig snd Bodorik, 2001
Levesque and MeDougall 196) have asrertained
that succesful e