Interpersonal strategies in E-Complaint refusals : textbook advice versus actual situated practice
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- Sofie Decock (UGent) , Bernard De Clerck (UGent) and Rebecca Van Herck
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- Abstract
- This article reports on the representation and operationalization of interpersonal attention in complaint management by comparing business textbooks, service recovery research, and situated practice. While textbooks commonly recommend the use of interpersonal strategies when writing complaint refusals, service recovery research points toward contextual differences in this regard. We use an authentic sample of complaint refusals from an intercultural business-to-business setting to show that the decontextualized recommendations in textbooks are not always applied in actual practice and that this lack of interpersonal attention need not be problematic.
- Keywords
- Bad-news messages, complaint-refusal emails, interpersonal strategies, experimental study, business-to-business communication, business communication textbooks, NEGATIVE LETTERS, LANGUAGE, IMPACT, NO, SATISFACTION, PERSPECTIVE, DIRECTIONS, POLITENESS, RECOVERY, ENGLISH
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8648927
- MLA
- Decock, Sofie, et al. “Interpersonal Strategies in E-Complaint Refusals : Textbook Advice versus Actual Situated Practice.” BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, vol. 83, no. 3, 2020, pp. 285–308, doi:10.1177/2329490620904952.
- APA
- Decock, S., De Clerck, B., & Van Herck, R. (2020). Interpersonal strategies in E-Complaint refusals : textbook advice versus actual situated practice. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 83(3), 285–308. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329490620904952
- Chicago author-date
- Decock, Sofie, Bernard De Clerck, and Rebecca Van Herck. 2020. “Interpersonal Strategies in E-Complaint Refusals : Textbook Advice versus Actual Situated Practice.” BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY 83 (3): 285–308. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329490620904952.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Decock, Sofie, Bernard De Clerck, and Rebecca Van Herck. 2020. “Interpersonal Strategies in E-Complaint Refusals : Textbook Advice versus Actual Situated Practice.” BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY 83 (3): 285–308. doi:10.1177/2329490620904952.
- Vancouver
- 1.Decock S, De Clerck B, Van Herck R. Interpersonal strategies in E-Complaint refusals : textbook advice versus actual situated practice. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY. 2020;83(3):285–308.
- IEEE
- [1]S. Decock, B. De Clerck, and R. Van Herck, “Interpersonal strategies in E-Complaint refusals : textbook advice versus actual situated practice,” BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 285–308, 2020.
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