Buffering effects of brand community identification in service failures: The role of customer citizenship behaviors

With two field studies, this research highlights the role of brand community identification (BCI) as a source of customers' repurchase intentions and also reveals how BCI creates a buffering effect, protecting against the negative repercussions of service failures for repurchase intentions. The first study builds on social identity theory and investigates BCI as a driver of repurchase intentions; it explains this positive relationship according...