Foreword | 6 |
Acknowledgements | 8 |
Short Table of Contents | 10 |
Table of Contents | 11 |
List of Figures | 16 |
List of Tables | 18 |
List of Abbreviations | 20 |
Chapter 1 Introduction | 24 |
1.1 Motivation and Goals of the Thesis | 24 |
1.2 Research Questions | 27 |
1.3 Structure of the Thesis | 27 |
Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework: Remote Services in Context of Technology-Mediated Services | 30 |
2.1 Emerging Technology-Mediated Service Types | 30 |
2.1.1 E-Services | 30 |
2.1.2 Self-Services | 32 |
2.1.3 Mobile Services | 35 |
2.1.4 Industry Specific Technology-Mediated Services | 36 |
2.1.4.1 Teleservices in Engineering and Manufacturing Industries | 36 |
2.1.4.2 Telematics in the Automotive Industry | 38 |
2.1.4.3 Telemedicine in Health Care | 39 |
2.1.4.4 Services in the IT-Sector | 41 |
2.2 Classification of Remote Services | 42 |
2.2.1 Definition of Remote Services | 42 |
2.2.2 Characteristics of Remote Services | 43 |
2.2.3 Benefits of Remote Services | 46 |
2.3 Classification of Interactive Remote Services | 47 |
2.3.1 Definition of Interactive Remote Services | 47 |
2.3.2 Characterization and Demarcation of Interactive Remote Services | 48 |
2.3.3 Positioning of Interactive Remote Services | 49 |
2.4 Conclusions and Implications | 52 |
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework for Remote Service Adoption and Continued Usage | 53 |
3.1 Theoretical Foundations of Technology Adoption | 53 |
3.1.1 Behavioral Theories from Social Psychology and Sociology | 54 |
3.1.1.1 Innovation Diffusion Theory and Variants | 54 |
3.1.1.2 The Theory of Reasoned Action and Variants | 56 |
3.1.1.3 The Theory of Planned Behavior and Variants | 58 |
3.1.1.4 The Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior | 59 |
3.1.2 Models in IT-Adoption Based on Behavioral Theories | 61 |
3.1.2.1 The Technology Acceptance Model and Variants | 61 |
3.1.2.2 The Motivational Model and Variants | 63 |
3.1.2.3 The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology | 64 |
3.1.2.4 Compeau and Higgins’ Model based on Social Cognitive Theory | 66 |
3.1.3 Theoretical Foundations of Continued Use of Technology | 67 |
3.1.3.1 Importance of Prior Experience | 67 |
3.1.3.2 Studies On Continued Usage | 68 |
3.1.3.3 Comparison of Adoption and Continuance Drivers | 70 |
3.1.4 Summary and Overview of Models in Technology Adoption | 72 |
3.2 Theoretical Foundations of Interaction in the Service En-counter | 80 |
3.2.1 Perceptions of Service Providers’ Employee Behavior | 80 |
3.2.1.1 Importance of Employee Behavior in the Service Encounter | 80 |
3.2.1.2 Customer Orientation of Employees | 82 |
3.2.1.3 Role of Employee Behavior in Service Quality Assessments | 82 |
3.2.1.4 Employee Behavior in Technology-Mediated Service Encounters | 84 |
3.2.2 Customer Integration in the Service Process | 87 |
3.2.2.1 Research on Customer Co-Production | 87 |
3.2.2.2 Drivers of Customer Co-Production | 88 |
3.2.3 Customer Beliefs Regarding the Interaction with Service Technol-ogy | 91 |
3.2.3.1 Consumer Readiness as Driver of Technology-Mediated Co-Production | 91 |
3.2.3.2 Technology Readiness as a Driver of Technology Usage in Services | 91 |
3.3 Transcending Concepts of Trust and Control across Dis-ciplines | 93 |
3.3.1 Importance of Trust and Trustworthiness | 93 |
3.3.2 Importance of Control Beliefs | 95 |
3.3.3 The Trust-Control Nexus | 97 |
3.4 Technology-Intensive Service Adoption in B2B contexts | 99 |
3.4.1 Business Service Relationships | 99 |
3.4.2 Decision Making and the Adoption Process in Organizations | 100 |
3.4.3 Organizational Adoption Drivers | 103 |
3.5 Summary of the Theoretical Foundations of Remote Ser-vices | 104 |
Chapter 4 Methodological Superstructure and Empirical Setting | 107 |
4.1 Methodological Superstructure | 107 |
4.2 Empirical Setting of the Employed Studies | 109 |
4.2.1 Selection of the Printing Industry | 109 |
4.2.2 Printing Machine Manufacturing | 110 |
4.2.3 The Printing Industry | 111 |
Chapter 5 Qualitative Exploratory Interview Study | 114 |
5.1 Motivation and Goals | 114 |
5.2 Qualitative Research Methodology | 115 |
5.2.1 Semi-Structured Interviews as Means of Data Collection | 115 |
5.2.2 Qualitative Content Analysis as Means of Data Analysis | 115 |
5.2.3 Validity and Reliability | 116 |
5.3 Field Phase | 118 |
5.3.1 Sample Selection | 118 |
5.3.2 Interview Situation and Questionnaire Design | 123 |
5.3.3 Category Development and Coding | 126 |
5.4 Results of the Qualitative Interview Study | 126 |
5.4.1 Assessment of Intercoder Reliability | 126 |
5.4.2 Structure of Results Presentation | 127 |
5.4.3 Technology Beliefs | 128 |
5.4.4 Relational Beliefs | 131 |
5.4.4.1 Trust in the Remote Service Technician | 131 |
5.4.4.2 Trust in the Remote Service Provider Company | 134 |
5.4.5 Process Control Beliefs | 135 |
5.4.6 Economic Values | 138 |
5.4.7 Participation Beliefs | 141 |
5.4.8 Cultural Differences in the Customer’sWillingness to Collaborate | 143 |
5.4.9 Prior Experiences | 144 |
5.4.10 Organizational Factors | 145 |
5.4.11 Contextual Factors | 147 |
5.4.12 Discussion of the Results | 148 |
Chapter 6 Hypotheses Development | 152 |
6.1 Development of the ITSUM | 152 |
6.1.1 Counterpart Beliefs | 153 |
6.1.1.1 Controllability of the Counterpart’s Actions | 153 |
6.1.1.2 Trustworthiness of the Counterpart | 155 |
6.1.2 Technology Beliefs | 157 |
6.1.2.1 Trust in Technology | 157 |
6.1.2.2 Ease of Use | 157 |
6.1.3 Perceived Usefulness | 158 |
6.1.4 Participation Beliefs | 160 |
6.1.4.1 Role Clarity | 160 |
6.1.4.2 Role Ability | 161 |
6.1.4.3 Intrinsic Motivation | 161 |
6.1.5 Organizational Characteristics | 162 |
6.1.5.1 Subjective Norms | 162 |
6.1.5.2 Company Size and Respondent’s Function | 163 |
6.2 Link Between Usage Intention and Actual Usage Behav-ior | 164 |
6.3 Hypotheses Development for Group Comparisons | 164 |
Chapter 7 Quantitative Studies | 170 |
7.1 Motivation and Goals | 170 |
7.2 Methods and Techniques Employed | 171 |
7.2.1 Survey Research | 171 |
7.2.2 Structural Equation Modeling | 172 |
7.2.2.1 Methodology | 172 |
7.2.2.2 Assessment of Reliability and Validity | 174 |
7.2.2.3 Assessment of Model Fit and Data Quality | 175 |
7.2.2.4 Dependent Categorical Variables | 177 |
7.2.2.5 Multi-Group Comparison | 177 |
7.3 Study Design | 180 |
7.4 General Outline of the Questionnaires | 181 |
7.5 Operationalization of the Constructs | 182 |
7.6 Quality of the Questionnaire and Pre-Test | 187 |
7.7 t1-Study: Results of ITSUM Validation | 188 |
7.7.1 Sample Structure and Description | 188 |
7.7.2 Data Quality | 191 |
7.7.3 Measurement Validity | 192 |
7.7.4 Assessing Common Method Variance | 195 |
7.7.5 Validation of the ITSUM (n=717) | 196 |
7.8 Multi-Group Comparison: Adoption vs. Continued Us-age | 199 |
7.8.1 Description of the Groups | 199 |
7.8.2 Assessing Measurement Invariance | 200 |
7.8.3 Results for Organizations in the Pre-Adoption Phase | 205 |
7.8.4 Results for Organizations in the Continued Usage Phase | 207 |
7.8.5 Comparison of Group Parameters | 210 |
7.9 t2-Study: Intention Behavior Link | 213 |
7.9.1 Sample Description | 213 |
7.9.2 Logistic Regression Results | 215 |
7.10 Discussion of the Results | 217 |
Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusions | 222 |
8.1 Summary of the Central Results | 222 |
8.2 Managerial Implications | 224 |
8.3 Implications for Future Research | 227 |
Bibliography | 230 |
Appendix A Additional Tables and Figures | 275 |
A.1 Interview Guideline of the Exploratory Qualitative Study | 275 |
A.2 First Pages of the Online Survey t1 and t2-study | 277 |
A.3 Exploratory Factor Analysis Results | 279 |
A.4 Correlations | 280 |
A.5 Calculation of Moderating Effects | 281 |