Article: Contact centre service excellence: a proposed conceptual framework Journal: International Journal of Services and Operations Management (IJSOM) 2018 Vol.29 No.1 pp.18 - 41 Abstract: This paper aims to develop a proposed conceptual framework that can be used in studying the determinants of contact centre service excellence for the continuously growing contact centre business globally. A content analysis method is performed on a range of English-written published papers between 1993 and 2014 to explore the proposed determinants of contact centre service excellence. The primary observation shows that there is limited academic literature in this area. The findings from the distillation of the proposed determinants of contact centre service excellence in essence suggest that there should be a high focus on the people - customer service agents (CSAs) hiring criteria, training and development, reward system, team structure and the cross-functional coordination process. The implication to future researchers is to focus on these determinants to better understand the impact on service excellence. For practitioners, the implication is to consider reviewing the current determinants used in their organisations to achieve service excellence and consider adopting the proposed determinants. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Contact centre service excellence: a proposed conceptual framework

Authors: Surya Dharamdass; Yudi Fernando

Addresses: Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia ' Faculty of Industrial Management, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 26300, Malaysia; Management Department, BINUS Online Learning, Bina Nusantara University, 11530, Indonesia

Abstract: This paper aims to develop a proposed conceptual framework that can be used in studying the determinants of contact centre service excellence for the continuously growing contact centre business globally. A content analysis method is performed on a range of English-written published papers between 1993 and 2014 to explore the proposed determinants of contact centre service excellence. The primary observation shows that there is limited academic literature in this area. The findings from the distillation of the proposed determinants of contact centre service excellence in essence suggest that there should be a high focus on the people - customer service agents (CSAs) hiring criteria, training and development, reward system, team structure and the cross-functional coordination process. The implication to future researchers is to focus on these determinants to better understand the impact on service excellence. For practitioners, the implication is to consider reviewing the current determinants used in their organisations to achieve service excellence and consider adopting the proposed determinants.

Keywords: content analysis; contact centres; call centres; service excellence; service quality; customer service agents; CSAs; business process outsourcing; BPO; conceptual framework; service delivery; customer delight; operations management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2018.088470

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2018 Vol.29 No.1, pp.18 - 41

Received: 01 Sep 2015
Accepted: 23 Apr 2016
Published online: 11 Dec 2017 *

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