Starbucks Service Quality Provided
by Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory Explored Customersrsquo; Perception
Kuang-Tai Liu and Rong-Zhen Huang
SOURCE:Springer图书
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-40060-5_41
YEAR:2014
PAGES:423-432
PUBLISHER:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Abstract Consumersrsquo; requirement is not only merchandise but happy purchase experiences. An individual experiences an emotion connected to merchandise, service, brand, commercial, human, or idea via interaction and memorable experi-ences which is experiential marketing contrast to traditional marketing. Experiential marketing designed for technology age emphasizes the fantasies, fun, entertainment, fashion and excitement of buyers with whole purchasing process. Starbucks sold its attractive atmosphere, the interior detail, the third space and quaint fashion such as its blackboard menus, jazz music, and counter designs- all perceived as part of the art, aesthetics, and humanities to its customers in its coffeehouse. However, customersrsquo; evaluation of service quality provided is often a multiple criteria decision-making problem. This research applies Schmittrsquo;s experiential marketing framework by decision-making trail and evaluation laboratory method to understand what Starbucks affectionate appeals or touchy-feely, is visceral to sell an experience that connects with consumersrsquo; psyche and life-style from mental context perspective. Meanwhile, this study delineates the causal relations among these service factors in the model using decision making trial and evaluation laboratory mathematical model and determines their effects on each other. Some sugges-tions and strategies will be provided the interrelations among those experiential factors.
Keywords Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory bull; Experiential marketing
K.-T. Liu ( ) bull; R.-Z. Huang
Department of Industrial Engineering Management, Chung Hua University, Hsingchu, Taiwan
e-mail: kuliu@chu.edu.tw
E. Qi et al. (eds.), Proceedings of 2013 4th International Asia Conference |
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on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2013),
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-40060-5__41, copy; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation, Purpose and Question
Starbucks brilliant twin-tailed Siren green logo has transmitted a sense of a special experience to millions of customers in its more than 19,000 coffeehouses by a unique interaction beyond coffee between its baristas and customers themselves within Proust scenario or existentialism context. Schultz, Starbucks CEO, made not only high quality coffee, but friendly embraced diversity valued the potential human communication in a place away from both home and office, but still transferred the intimacy of a good neighborhood relationship beyond perfectly made beverage. The author and professor Leo Buscaglia, also known as Dr Love, put it, “Too often underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around” [1]. All attentions to detail reflect not only Starbucksrsquo; quality and reliability as its brand, but maximize the fun, fashion, fantasy, and excitement of the coffee buying experience.
Pine and Gilmore said successful experiences are unique, memorable and retain-able over time beyond the ordinary customersrsquo; experience [2]. Because customers usually have short attention spans, the best marketing campaigns should make an immediate and surprising impact and hold the attention of potential customers [2]. Procter and Gamble strengthens its detergent cleaners or the whitener in its toothpaste but Singapore Airline campaign says nothing mundane; McDonald had playgrounds for fun to its restaurants to sell more than just “happy” meals for children. Holbrook suggests that in the context of consumption situations, a marketing campaign must be a synthesis of not only advertisement or packaging campaigns, but must understand the customerrsquo;s priority of experiential satisfaction [3]. This study main purpose discusses what Starbucks service affectionate appeals or touchy-feely, is visceral to sell an experience that connects with consumersrsquo; psyche and life-style from mental context perspective. Meanwhile, the question in this research is which service quality provided are the most important perceived by Starbucksrsquo; customers?
2 Literature Review
2.1 Customers Experience
Dewey stated that experience is marketed by expectation, emotional involvement over time and involves a unique activity from the ordinary [4]. Schmitt stated that experiences provided sensory, emotional, thinking, behavioral and related values based hedonistic perspective [5]. Sheth proposed that three variables construct
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customer experiences: stimulus variable- perceiving sensory and information, context variable- influenced by the context of the stimulus, and situational variable-perceptions are influenced by individual prior experience with a particular product or service [ 剩余内容已隐藏,支付完成后下载完整资料
通过对星巴克决策试验和对消费者感知的探索研究其对服务质量的影响[节选]
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Keywords Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory bull; Experiential marketing
1.1 Motivation, Purpose and Question
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