“Deal with it”: How coping with e-service innovation affects the customer experience

E-service customers have myriad alternatives, so they can easily reduce their use of an e-service or switch to competitors. To enhance existing customers' experiences and convince them to persist in their usage, companies often introduce new versions of e-services. However, the changes resulting from such incremental innovations can be effortful for customers to learn and potentially even ruin their experiences. If e-service providers want to...