Hierarchy of customer goals: conceptual framework and new insights
| Autor: | Leonard V. Coote, Janet R. McColl-Kennedy, Zahra Tabaei Aghdaei |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Service (business)
Hierarchy Knowledge management Concept map business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Service management 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) Conceptual framework Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Action plan 0502 economics and business Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) 050211 marketing Psychology business Goal setting 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Service Management. 32:673-701 |
| ISSN: | 1757-5818 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/josm-03-2020-0087 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to: (1) better understand the structure (hierarchy) of customer goals providing conceptual clarity; and (2) propose a hierarchy of customer goals conceptual framework that explicates how healthcare customer goals are linked to drivers and outcomes, thus building theory and informing practice.Design/methodology/approachThe research draws on 21 in-depth interviews of patients with a chronic disease. Drawing principally on construal-level theory and using manual thematic analysis and Leximancer, this article provides new insights into customer goals.FindingsIn a first, the authors identify a two-dimensional structure for each of the three main goal types, which previously had been viewed as unidimensional. The authors develop a conceptual framework linking drivers of goal setting (promotion/prevention focus world view and perceived role) with goal type (life goals, focal goals and action plan goals and their respective subgoals) and outcomes (four forms of subjective well-being). Visual concept maps illustrate the relative importance of certain health-related goals over others.Research limitations/implicationsThe usefulness of the authors’ conceptual framework is demonstrated through the application of their framework to goal setting among healthcare customers, showing links between the structure of goals (life goals, focal goals and action plan goals) to drivers (promotion/prevention focus world view and perceived role) and outcomes (subjective well-being) and the framework's potential application to other service settings.Originality/valueThis study contributes to healthcare marketing and service management literature by providing new insights into goal setting and proposing a novel hierarchy of customer goals conceptual framework linking drivers, goal types and outcomes. |
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