본 연구는 부분적 종업원이자 임시적 종업원이라고 할 수 있는 서비스 고객의 행동 선행변수를 제시하고 이러한 고객행동이 서비스 품질지각과 재구매 의도에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 분석하여 서비스 고객관리에 관한 시사점을 제공하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 고객의 행동을 참여행동과 시민행동으로 개념적으로 구분하여 참여행동의 선행변수로는 자기 효능감, 고객사회화를, 시민행동의 선행변수로는 공정성지각, 고객몰입을 연구모델로 제시하였으며 분석 결과 각 고객의 행동이 실증적으로도 구별되는 개념임을 확인할 수 있었다. 가장 주목할 점은 참여행동과 시민행동이 서비스 품질 지각과 재구매 의도에 미치는 차별적 영향력이라고 할 수 있으며, 구조방정식 분석 결과 시민행동이 참여행동보다 통계적으로 더 유의하게 서비스 품질지각과 재구매 의도에 영향을 미쳤으며 경로계수 역시 더 높은 수치를 보여주었다. 따라서 이러한 분석결과를 통해서 서비스 관리자는 서비스 조직의 생산성을 향상시키기 위해서 특히 고객의 시민행동에 더욱 많은 관심을 기울여야 함을 이해할 수 있으며 마지막으로 연구의 시사점과 한계점 및 향후 연구방향을 제시하였다.
1. Introduction There is a growing concern about the performance of organization and the ways to increase its productivity (Mills and Morris, 1986). As a way of improving competitiveness of service organization, researchers have been increasingly interested in the customer behavior. Furthermore, recent researches on viewing service customers as partial employees have enabled marketing area to adopt human resource management and organizational behavior principle into service customer study through interdisciplinary approach (Rodie and Kleine, 2000). Relevant service marketing researches have been conducted with two directions. One is customer participation research which applied employee in-role behavior into customer viewpoint (Cermak et al., 1994; Kellogg and Youngdahl. and Bowen, 1997; Ennew and Binks. 1999). the other is customer citizenship behavior research which adopt employee extra-role or organization citizenship behavior (OCB) in view of service customer (Bettencourt, 1997: Groth, 2001: Yoon and Suh, 2003). However, despite conceptual awareness of the role of customer behavior in contributing to service quality perception and repurchasing intention, there has been little empirical research on the antecedents of key customer behaviors. A few investigations examined distinctiveness of customer participation behavior(CPB) and citizenship behavior by suggesting different antecedents of customer behavior empirically. ◀그림삽입▶ 2. Research Hypotheses Nine research hypotheses were dereloped as follows. Hypothesis 1: Self-efficacy is positively related to CPB. Hypothesis 2: Customer socialization is positively related to CPB. Hypothesis 3: Justice perception is positively related to CCB. Hypothesis 4: Customer commitment is positively related to CCB. Hypothesis 5: CPB is positively related to perceived service quality. Hypothesis 6: CCB is positively related to perceived service quality. Hypothesis 7: CPB is positively related to repurchasing intentions. Hypothesis 8: CCB is positively related to repurchasing intentions. Hypothesis 9: Perceived service quality is positively related to repurchasing intention. 3. Results and Discussion Our study provided the evidence of the distinctiveness of customer participation and citizenship behavior, as the prior research (Motowidlo and Van Scotter. 1994; Groth. 2001) did. Especially, CCB appears to have a stronger effect on perceived service quality (parameter estimate: .540 t-value: 2.901) and repurchasing intention (parameter estimate: .485. t-value: 3.071), indicating that CCB plays a key role in affecting service organization performance. This pattern of results implies that service organization should distinguish between CPB and citizenship behavior, and focus more on CCB. In terms of the antecedents of CPB, self-efficacy and customer socialization were significantly related to CPB. Two potential antecedents of CCB were explored in this study: justice perception, and customer commitment. Consistent with the prior research (e.g., Moorman, 1991: Organ, 1990: O`Reilly and Chatman, 1986). affect was related to CCB. Finally, as we hypothesized, the relationship between perceived service quality and repurchasing intention was statistically significant. This study contributes to the marketing literature in several ways. First, the pattern of antecedents and consequences provides robust support for the distinctiveness of customer participation and citizenship behavior. This pattern also suggests service organizations should manage customer behavior differently. Second, our results provide strong theoretical and empirical support for the conceptualization of service customer by adopting human resource study, for example, organization citizenship behavior, organization commitment, organization socialization. Third, the findings suggest customer behavior has positive effect on service quality perception and repurchasing intention which means organizational pe