Attributions of blame for customer mistreatment: Implications for employees' service performance and customers' negative word of mouth

Integrating conservation of resources and attribution theories, this study investigates the extent to which perceived customer mistreatment increases customers' negative word of mouth by reducing service workers' subsequent customer-directed in-role performance and customer-directed organizational citizenship behaviors. We also hypothesized that customer-directed blame attributions would moderate these relationships. Data collected from 153...