The Impact of Social Media on Customer Complaint Management: A Research in Private Health Institutions Cover Image

Sosyal Medyanın Müşteri Şikâyet Yönetimi Üzerine Etkisi: Özel Sağlık Kurumlarında Bir Araştırma
The Impact of Social Media on Customer Complaint Management: A Research in Private Health Institutions

Author(s): Müberra YURDAKUL, Yasemin Ak
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Customer Complaint Management; Social Media; Private Health Institutions; Content Analysis;

Summary/Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the research is to identify customer complaints shared on social media, to examine the approaches of private health institutions to customer complaints on social media platforms and the way they manage them. Design/methodology/approach – The research data has been qualitatively constructed on the first three private health institutions with the highest number of complaints, by including the months of “January, February, March” of 2018 on the sikayetvar.com website, which is a platform where customer complaints are shared in Turkey. Content analysis method was used in the document review and evaluation part as a data collection method in the examination of complaints in social media. Findings – It has been determined that leading private health institutions in Turkey do not perceive customer complaints in social media different from classical customer complaints and different managerial processes have not yet been realized. Discussion – Customers can share their complaints comfortably and quickly on social media without feeling under pressure, thus affecting other customers' health institution selection decisions. Customer complaints shared on social media have been noticed by private health institutions, so it has been demonstrated by studies that a management approach different from the classical complaint management approach is required.

  • Issue Year: 14/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 1669-1686
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish