How much compensation is too much? An investigation of the effectiveness of financial overcompensation as a means to enhance customer loyalty

The present paper examines the effectiveness of financial overcompensation as a means to enhance customer loyalty after a product failure. Overcompensation implies that customers are entitled to a refund that is larger than the purchase price. It is, however, still unclear whether large overcompensa...

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Main Authors: Tessa Haesevoets, Alain Van Hiel, Mario Pandelaere, Dries H. Bostyn, David De Cremer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017-03-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16929/jdm16929.pdf