exq an empirical contruct of customer experience quality (cranfield school of management)
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Frontiers in Service Karlstad 2010
Dr Stan Maklan!email: [email protected]!
EXQ – An Empirical Construct of Customer Experience Quality
Dr Phil Klaus!email: [email protected]!
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Call for a measure of customer experience
• Creating superior customer is a key objective for service organisations (Verhoef et al. 2009) in their efforts to build customer loyalty (Badgett, Boyce and Kleinberger 2007). "
• Focus of research as it is the key determinant of consumersʼ service quality evaluation: “By definition, a good customer experience is good customer service, thus the customer experience is the service” (Berry et al. 2006, p.1). "
• A corresponding scale needs to be developed to evaluate the customer experience quality from the customerʼs point of view (Verhoef et al. 2009). "
• “Scale [development] must go hand-in-hand with conceptual development of the construct [customer service] itself” (Brakus et al. 2009, p. 52). "
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Stage 1:" Scale Generation and
Initial Purification"
Stage 3:" Reliability and Validity
Assessment"
Stage 2:" Scale Purification
through EFA"
Stage 4:" Conceptual Framework and SEM connection to
outcomes"
- Insight from literature to choose context - 30 in-depth interviews - Initial pool of items - Readability Check (n=10) - 7 experts assess face and construct validity - Q-sorting (8 categories) - Initial purification and categorization (a)n=7 (b)n=5 -Produced 37 items in 5 dimensions
- Collect responses from representative sample (n=75) - Exploratory factor analysis (on 5-dimensional model) - Assess content validity, scale reliability and validity - Develop purified scale with 19 items in four dimensions for next stage
- Additional representative sample (n=218) - Confirmatory factor analysis on 4-dimensional model - Assess factor structure and dimensionality of scale - Assess model fit - Assess scale and construct reliability and discriminant validity - Final EXQ scale of 19 items in four dimensions
- Test salience of EXQ scale in explaining variances and predictive ability to important customer experience outcomes: customer satisfaction, loyalty, and word-of-mouth intentions
Qualitative Enquiry and Initial Purification
Purification and Refinement
Final Refinement and Validation
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Dimensions of Customer Experience Quality (EXQ)!
Peace of Mind! Outcome Focus! Moments of Truth!
Product Experience!
Expertise" Inertia" Flexibility" Freedom of choice"
Process ease" Result focus" Pro-activity" Cross-product comparison"
Relationship focus (versus transaction)" Past experience" Risk perception" Comparison necessity"
Convenience retention" Common grounding" Interpersonal skills" Account management"
Familiarity" Service recovery"
Independent advice"
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Peace of Mind
Outcome Focus
Moments of Truth
Product Experience
Freedom of choice"
Cross product comparison"
Comparison necessity"
Account management"
Flexibility"
Pro-activity"
Risk perception"
Interpersonal skills"
Service recovery"
Inertia"
Result focus"
Past experience"
Common grounding"
Expertise"
Process ease"
Relationship V transaction"
Convenience retention"
Familiarity"
Independent advice"Loyalty
Word-of-Mouth
Customer Satisfaction
Customer Experience
Quality (EXQ)
.86
.94
.63
.69
.61
.71
.66
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Customer experience quality is the customer's assessment of all attributes of their
dealings with a service provider that explains their purchase behavior. Its dimensions
are product experience, outcome focus, moments-of-truth, and peace-of-mind
(POMP).
Our definition
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EXQ dimensions’ impact on marketing outcomes
Standard Path Estimates"
Customer Satisfaction" Loyalty" Word-of-Mouth"
Peace of mind" 0.90" 0.72" 0.40"
Outcome focus" 0.09" 0.20" 0.20"
Moments of truth" 0.04" 0.13" 0.09"
Product experience" 0.10" 0.09" 0.04"
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Explanatory power of EXQ vs customer satisfaction
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Customer Satisfaction" Loyalty" Word-of-
Mouth"
EXQ" 0.63" 0.86" 0.94"
Customer Satisfaction" NA" 0.65" 0.87"