2021
DOI: 10.1002/job.2542
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Turning lemons into lemonade: The role of proactive personality and information exchange in limiting reciprocal negative affect transference in service encounters

Abstract: Summary Drawing upon theory and research on affect transference and proactive personality, we examine the proactive behaviors employees enact to limit the reciprocal transference of negative affect between customers and employees during service encounters. Results of two event‐based, multi‐source field studies in the service industry show that employee proactive personality weakens (a) the positive relationship between customer negative affect before the service encounter and employee negative affect during th… Show more

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“…However, as proactive individuals carry out anticipatory actions to obtain additional information, be aware of policies and increase their knowledge and knowhow of processes and the environment [128,129], they are more likely to have knowledge on the resources available. Moreover, as they can gather social and political knowledge [122], since they engage in more information exchange [138] and are very good at developing interpersonal relations [139], they will probably acquire more support and, as a result, perceive greater facilitating conditions for the use of a new technology, such as mobile banking. Hence, Hypothesis H5 (H5): Facilitating conditions mediate the positive relationship between customers' proactive personality and their intention to adopt mobile banking.…”
Section: The Mediating Role Of Facilitating Conditionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, as proactive individuals carry out anticipatory actions to obtain additional information, be aware of policies and increase their knowledge and knowhow of processes and the environment [128,129], they are more likely to have knowledge on the resources available. Moreover, as they can gather social and political knowledge [122], since they engage in more information exchange [138] and are very good at developing interpersonal relations [139], they will probably acquire more support and, as a result, perceive greater facilitating conditions for the use of a new technology, such as mobile banking. Hence, Hypothesis H5 (H5): Facilitating conditions mediate the positive relationship between customers' proactive personality and their intention to adopt mobile banking.…”
Section: The Mediating Role Of Facilitating Conditionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They are likely to take personal initiative to impact the world around them (Bakker et al. , 2012; Liu et al. , 2021).…”
Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%