Prior research has largely focused on the positive side of customer experience, such as satisfaction. In contrast, this study investigates the negative side of customer experience and tests the harmful impact of consumer negative voice on firms' stock returns. Based on a longitudinal real-world data set that matches consumer negative voice (complaint records) in the airline industry with firm stock prices, it is found that higher levels of current consumer negative voice harm firms' future idiosyncratic stock returns. In addition, this harmful impact is robust, albeit different across airline companies, after latent heterogeneity and traditional finance fundamentals are considered. These findings enable marketers and corporate financers to be more confident with customer equity theory and customer relationship management. In addition, armed with hard data (record-based, longitudinal), this research helps relieve criticisms against prior studies that are based on soft data (survey-based, cross-sectional). To financial analysts, this research suggests that, all else being equal, they should rate downward the stocks of firms that are shadowed by harmful consumer negative voice. In today's high-tech environment with blogs and online forums, the damage caused by negative voice may be nontrivial and should not be ignored. Overall, this research demonstrates to managers that investments in reducing consumer negative voice could indeed make financial sense in terms of promoting firm-idiosyncratic stock returns.


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    Title :

    Consumer negative voice and firm-idiosynchratic stock returns


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Journal of Marketing ; 71 , 3 ; 75-88


    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    14 Seiten, 2 Bilder, 3 Tabellen, 68 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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