Being Difficult: Customers’ Sensemaking of Their Deviant Behavior
Being Difficult: Customers’ Sensemaking of Their Deviant Behavior
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DOI:
10.1080/01639625.2014.901052
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发表时间:
2014-07
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
D. Yagil;G. Luria
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作者:
D. Yagil;G. Luria
Customers constantly deviate from social norms in their interactions with service employees. Previous research has explored customers’ deviance from the service employee’s viewpoint, overlooking the customers’ own perspective of their deviance. Based on interviews, we present a model of customers’ individual and social sensemaking of their deviant behavior in service interactions. Customers frame their behavior as inseparable from script violations by the service provider. Deviance is viewed as a justified act of taking charge to substitute an unmotivated or incapable service provider. Social sensemaking tends to validate such behavior by providing approval, thereby reinforcing norms of deviance in service.