A psychological perspective on service segmentation models: The significance of accounting for consumers’ perceptions of waiting and service

A psychological perspective on service segmentation models: The significance of accounting for consumers’ perceptions of waiting and service

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Article ID: iaor1997119
Country: United States
Volume: 41
Issue: 11
Start Page Number: 1806
End Page Number: 1815
Publication Date: Nov 1995
Journal: Management Science
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Keywords: behaviour
Abstract:

The authors examine how service should be divided and scheduled when it can be provided in multiple separate segments. They analyze variants of this problem using a model with a conventional function describing the waiting cost, that is modified to account for some aspects of the psychological cost of waiting in line. The authors show that consideration of the psychological cost can result in prescriptions that are inconsistent with the common wisdom of queuing theorists derived according to the conventional approach (e.g., equal load assignments). More generally, the present intention in this paper is to illustrate that aspects of the psychological cost of waiting can be accounted for in the analysis of queuing systems, and that this may have significant implications for the service schemes that are derived.

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