This special section of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science presents five impactful studies that explore customer engagement (CE) through crowdfunding, social media, influencer networks, and live-streaming. These studies enhance our understanding of CE and how it shapes firm strategy and consumer behavior. As a preface to the studies featured in this special section, we present…
To improve customer experience and achieve sustainable development, many industries, especially banking, have leveraged artificial intelligence to implement a chatbot into their customer service. By integrating DeLone and McLean’s information systems success (D&M ISS) model and the expectation confirmation model (ECM) with the factor of trust, the aim of this study was to investigate the …
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping service by performing various tasks, constituting a major source of innovation, yet threatening human jobs. We develop a theory of AI job replacement to address this double-edged impact. The theory specifies four intelligences required for service tasks—mechanical, analytical, intuitive, and empathetic—and lays out the way firms shoul…
Communicating with customers through live chat interfaces has become an increasingly popular means to provide real-time customer service in many e-commerce settings. Today, human chat service agents are frequently replaced by conversational software agents or chatbots, which are systems designed to communicate with human users by means of natural language often based on artificial intelligen…
The use of AI chatbot applications with social media messengers aims to shape the ‘online to offline’ approach to chat-based purchases. Using a sequential mixed-methods approach, we examined customer experiences with and the uses and gratifications of AI chatbots, and the influence of customers’ perceptions of service quality in AI-based customer services on favourable customer experi…
The main purpose of our study is to analyze the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on firm performance, notably by building on the business value of AI-based transformation projects. This study was conducted using a four-step sequential approach: (i) analysis of AI and AI concepts/technologies; (ii) in-depth exploration of case studies from a great number of industrial sectors; (iii)…