Regression Analysis to Identify Relationship between Service Failure, Service Recovery, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Food Delivery Platform †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Food Delivery Service
2.2. Service Failures
2.3. Service Recovery Strategy
2.4. Post-Recovery Satisfaction
2.5. Loyalty
3. Research Methodology
3.1. Subjects
3.2. Research Method
4. Results and Discussion
4.1. Demographics of Subjects
4.1.1. Service Failure
4.1.2. Severity Analysis of Service Failures
4.2. Number and Severity of Service Errors
4.3. Acceptance of Service Remediation Strategies
4.4. Loyalty
4.5. Service Failures and Service Recovery Strategy Acceptance
4.6. Impact of Service Recovery Strategy Acceptance on Post-Recovery Satisfaction
4.7. Impact of Post-Recovery Satisfaction on Loyalty
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Substantive | Psychological Remedies | ||
---|---|---|---|
Process failure | Pearson correlation | −0.008 | −0.257 ** |
significance (two-tail) | 0.925 | 0.003 | |
amount | 128 | 128 | |
Outcome Failure | Pearson correlation | 0.026 | −0.115 |
significance (two-tail) | 0.775 | 0.194 | |
amount | 128 | 128 |
Classification | Question | Remedies | T |
---|---|---|---|
Process failure |
| Substantive | 0.300 |
Psychological | 1.701 | ||
Process failure |
| Substantive | −0.811 |
Psychological | 0.595 | ||
Outcome failure |
| Substantive | −0.898 |
Psychological | −0.367 | ||
Process failure |
| Substantive | 0.068 |
Psychological | 0.724 | ||
Outcome failure |
| Substantive | 0.456 |
Psychological | 1.115 | ||
Outcome failure |
| Substantive | 0.237 |
Psychological | 0.331 | ||
Outcome failure |
| Substantive | −0.337 |
Psychological | 1.709 | ||
Process failure |
| Substantive | −0.502 |
Psychological | 0.515 | ||
Process failure |
| Substantive | 0.010 |
Psychological | 1.785 | ||
Process failure |
| Substantive | 0.110 |
Psychological | 2.091 * | ||
Process failure |
| Substantive | 1.176 |
Psychological | 1.117 |
Model | Standardized Coefficient | t | Significance |
---|---|---|---|
Beta Allocation | |||
(Constant) Service recovery | 3.786 | 0.000 | |
0.571 | 7.799 | 0.000 | |
F | 60.817 | ||
Significance | 0.000 | ||
0.320 | |||
Dependent variable: Post-recovery satisfaction |
Model | Standardized Coefficient | t | Significance |
---|---|---|---|
Beta Allocation | |||
(Constant) substantive remedies psychological remedies | 3.584 | 0.000 | |
0.398 | 4.804 | 0.000 | |
0.271 | 3.274 | 0.001 | |
F | 31.377 | ||
significance | 0.000 | ||
0.324 | |||
Dependent variable: Post-recovery satisfaction |
Model | Standardized Coefficient | t | Significance |
---|---|---|---|
Beta Allocation | |||
(Constant) Post-Recovery Satisfaction | 1.837 | 0.069 | |
0.692 | 10.748 | 0.000 | |
F | 115.516 | ||
significance | 0.000 | ||
0.474 | |||
Dependent variable: loyalty |
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Huang, Y.-J.; Chang, S.-C.; Lin, Y.-S.; Chan, H.-Y.; Chang, W.-T. Regression Analysis to Identify Relationship between Service Failure, Service Recovery, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Food Delivery Platform. Eng. Proc. 2024, 74, 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2024074028
Huang Y-J, Chang S-C, Lin Y-S, Chan H-Y, Chang W-T. Regression Analysis to Identify Relationship between Service Failure, Service Recovery, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Food Delivery Platform. Engineering Proceedings. 2024; 74(1):28. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2024074028
Chicago/Turabian StyleHuang, You-Jie, Shu-Chia Chang, Yi-Shin Lin, Ho-Yi Chan, and Wei-Ting Chang. 2024. "Regression Analysis to Identify Relationship between Service Failure, Service Recovery, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Food Delivery Platform" Engineering Proceedings 74, no. 1: 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2024074028
APA StyleHuang, Y.-J., Chang, S.-C., Lin, Y.-S., Chan, H.-Y., & Chang, W.-T. (2024). Regression Analysis to Identify Relationship between Service Failure, Service Recovery, Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Food Delivery Platform. Engineering Proceedings, 74(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2024074028