“单枪匹马”还是“人多势众”——企业道歉者人数对消费者宽恕的影响
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  • 英文篇名:How and When the Size of Apology Representative Affects Consumer Forgiveness
  • 作者:冉雅璇 ; 卫海英 ; Sam ; J.Maglio ; 黄敏 ; 李清
  • 英文作者:Ran Yaxuan;Wei Haiying;Maglio S.J.;Huang Min;Li Qing;School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law;School of Management, Jinan University;Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto;School of Economics, Jinan University;Shenzhen Tourism College, Jinan University;
  • 关键词:人数效应 ; 道歉 ; 宽恕 ; 情绪共情 ; 责任预期 ; 实体性
  • 英文关键词:Apologizer Size;;Apology;;Forgiveness;;Emotional Empathy;;Expected Responsibility;;Entitativity
  • 中文刊名:LKGP
  • 英文刊名:Nankai Business Review
  • 机构:中南财经政法大学工商管理学院;暨南大学管理学院;多伦多大学罗特曼商学院;暨南大学经济学院;暨南大学深圳旅游管理学院;
  • 出版日期:2017-08-08
  • 出版单位:南开管理评论
  • 年:2017
  • 期:v.20;No.115
  • 基金:国家自然科学基金项目(71372169);; 中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金项目(15JNLH005)资助
  • 语种:中文;
  • 页:LKGP201704005
  • 页数:11
  • CN:04
  • ISSN:12-1288/F
  • 分类号:40-50
摘要
企业在向消费者道歉时,应该如何安排道歉者人数,一位还是多位道歉者?本研究通过五个实验揭示了企业道歉背景下的"人数效应":(1)相比多人道歉,一人道歉使消费者表现出更高的宽恕意愿(实验1a、2、3、4)和宽恕行为(实验1b),且不同人数的多人道歉对宽恕的影响无显著差异。(2)情绪共情和责任预期中介道歉者人数对宽恕的影响(实验2)。具体而言,与多人道歉相比,消费者对一人道歉的情绪共情和责任预期更高,进而促进其宽恕。(3)道歉者的实体性调节消费者对一人/多人道歉的宽恕(实验4),即高实体性可提升消费者对多人道歉的宽恕,从而弱化一人道歉与多人道歉在消费者宽恕上的差异。
        A company apology necessarily involves the apology representative, which may consist of one person or multiple people. Previous research has suggested that the number of people is an important determinant in various aspects of communication, such as impression formation, willingness to talk, sharing contents, and pro-social behavior. Thus, we suggest that, the size of apology representative(i.e., either one or multiple) could influence consumer forgiveness. Moreover, we postulate that entitativity could moderate the main effect. Entitativity, which refers to the degree to which a collection of individuals comprises a single coherent entity, may attenuate the perception difference between one person and many people. A high entitative group may be inherently treated as a single individual, and are processed and judged differently than a low entitative group. Thus, entitativity may moderate the effect of the size of apology representative(one versus multiple) on forgiveness. Five experiments were conducted to examine the above hypotheses. Experiment 1a and 1b investigated whether apologizer size(one versus multiple) affects consumers' forgiveness. In particular, Experiment 1a measured the willingness to forgive by using the TRIM scale and Experiment 1b measured the behavioral index of forgiveness by using a resource allocation task. Additionally, Experiment 2 identified the underlying process by showing that the effect of the apologizer size on forgiveness is mediated by consumers' emotive reaction(i.e., emotional empathy) and cognitive reaction(i.e., expected responsibility) towards the apologizer(s). Further, Experiment 3 tried to rule out some alternative explanations, such as whether the picture or the number influences consumer forgiveness. Finally, Experiment 4 aimed to exploring the role of entitativity in the effect of apologizer size on consumer forgiveness. Results are as follows.(1) Compared to multiple apology representatives, one apology representative leads to greater consumer forgiveness, which includes forgiving intentions and forgiving behaviors.(2) The apologizer-size effect is driven by the consumers' emotional empathy and expected responsibility to the apologizer(s). Specifically, relative to multiple apology representatives, one apology representative induces higher emotional empathy and expected responsibility, thereby facilitating consumer forgiveness.(3) Entitativity could attenuate the effect of apologizer size on consumer forgiveness. Further, we discussed the theoretical contributions to the extant literature on the apology, the number of people, psychological distance, and entitativity, while offering some practical implications for managers.
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    (1)详见《哈佛商业评论》中文版一文:http://www.hbrchina.org/2015-10-09/3415.html
    (2)本文通过一个课堂实验对企业名称进行了前测(N=57)。仅根据企业名称,所有被试(NAmilue=23,NApearl=24)对企业态度(1=“负面/不欢迎/讨厌”,6=“积极/欢迎/喜欢”;α=0.89)、品牌个性(1=“非常不活泼/不真诚”,6=“非常活泼/真诚”)、产品质量(1=“非常差”,6=“非常好”)进行了评价。分析结果表明:被试对Amiblue和Apearl的品牌态度、个性推断、产品质量均无显著感知差异(ps>0.15)。因此,Amiblue和Apearl企业名称的前测成功。

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