Barriers affecting organisational adoption of higher order customer engagement in tourism service interactions

Prakash K. Chathoth, Gerardo R. Ungson, Levent Altinay, Eric S.W. Chan, Robert Harrington and Fevzi Okumus

Tourism Management, 2014, vol. 42, issue C, 181-193

Abstract: In this study, consumer engagement was examined from a service-dominant logic perspective in tourism service interactions. Extensive field interviews and focus groups in the context of three upscale hotels in Hong Kong identified numerous barriers towards successfully engaging consumers, extending from consumer, technological, and strategic cases to organisational cases. In all, a firm's overall strategy, organisational structure and culture are the most important barriers determining whether consumer engagement as depicted in the literature can be successfully deployed within hotel organisations. Implications call for a more intensive study of engaging consumers from an organisational context with a reassessment of progressive stages that include leadership interventions and the incorporation of consumer feedback at all stages of the firm's value-creating network.

Keywords: Consumer engagement; Organisational barriers; Value-creating network; Co-creation; Service-dominant logic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2013.12.002

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