TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Rossmann, Alexander A1 - Stei, Gerald ED - Zimmermann, Alfred ED - Rossmann, Alexander T1 - Customer services in the digital transformation: social media versus hotline channel performance T2 - Digital Enterprise Computing (DEC 2015) : June 25-26, 2015, Böblingen, Germany N2 - Due to the digital transformation online service strategies have gained prominence in practice as well as in the theory of service management. This study examines the efficacy of different types of service channels in customer complaint handling. The theoretical framework, developed using complaint handling and social media literature, is tested against data collected from two different channels (hotline and social media) of a German telecommunication service provider. We contribute to the understanding of firm’s multichannel distribution strategy in two ways: a) by conceptualizing and evaluating complaint handling quality across traditional and social media channels, and b) by testing the impact of complaint handling quality on key performance outcomes like customer loyalty, positive word-of-mouth, and cross purchase intentions. KW - multichannel KW - social media KW - word-of-mouth KW - customer satisfaction KW - customer loyalty KW - complaint handling Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-5965 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-5965 UR - http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings244/article19.html SN - 978-3-88579-638-1 SB - 978-3-88579-638-1 SP - 27 EP - 38 S1 - 10 PB - Gesellschaft für Informatik CY - Bonn ER -