Browsing by Author "Okan, Mehmet"
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Frontline employee age and customer mistreatment: a meta-analysis
Okan, Mehmet; Elmadağ, Ayşe Banu; İdemen, Elif (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2020)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive meta-analytic examination of the relationship between employee age and customer mistreatment. Drawing on socioemotional selectivity theory and taking the ... -
A qualitative approach to designer as a product cue: proposed conceptual model of consumers perceptions and attitudes
İdemen, Elif; Elmadağ, Ayşe Banu; Okan, Mehmet (Springer, 2020)‘Designer as a product cue’, which refers to the information presented about the product regarding the designer of that product, has increasingly been in use by marketers. However, there is a dire need to investigate its ... -
Robotic transformative service research: deploying social robots for consumer well-being during COVID-19 and beyond
Henkel, Alexander P.; Martina, Caic; Blaurock, Marah; Okan, Mehmet (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2020)Purpose: Besides the direct physical health consequences, through social isolation COVID-19 affects a considerably larger share of consumers with deleterious effects for their psychological well-being. Two vulnerable ... -
A transdisciplinary review and framework of consumer interactions with embodied social robots: Design, delegate, and deploy
Blaurock, Marah; Caic, Martina; Okan, Mehmet (Wiley, 2022)Social robots are gradually entering the organizational frontline, and research is beginning to unveil the implications for consumer-firm interactions. While empirical studies on human-robot service interaction (HRSI) are ... -
Witnessing verbal aggression: role of customers' self-conscious emotions
Okan, Mehmet; Elmadağ, Ayşe Banu (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2020)Purpose This paper aims to examine the widespread effects of service actors' verbal aggression on witness customers' intentions toward the service organizations through their self-conscious emotions. The moderating roles ...