service users. When that happens, service failures
occur. Service Failures are situations where the
services provided are not successful in realizing the
expectations of customers (Michel, 2001). So far,
there are still failed services provided by PT. XYZ
officers. If there is a failure in the services provided
by the company and cause passengers to feel less
satisfied, then this is called customer dissatisfaction.
Thus, service failures are a failure of PT. XYZ
officers in providing services to customers. The failed
service can make customers feel dissatisfied so that
it can lead to brand switching behavior from
customers. So, brand switching behavior occurs
because of service failures and customer
dissatisfaction.
1.2 Research Purposes
This study investigated how service failures affect
dissatisfaction and brand switching behavior on PT.
XYZ ferry passengers. The research results help the
company to understand the real reasons why
customers dissatisfied and switch to another brand.
So the company can be improving and developing a
strategy to avoid service failures. Based on the
research background, the following purposed are
listed:
1. To analyze the effect of service failures on brand
switching behavior.
2. To analyze the effect of service failures on
customer dissatisfaction.
3. To analyze the effect of customer dissatisfaction
on brand switching behavior.
4. To analyze the effect of service failures on
brand switching behavior through customer
dissatisfaction.
of each service provided will be different whether it
is satisfying or not.
According to Mccoll-Kennedy & Sparks (2003)
there are four sources of service failures, there are
service, service provider, things out of control, and
customers. Service or facility provided by the service
provider that is less than optimal, such as the wrong
product/service, the wrong price, and the waiting
time is too long. From service providers, service
failures can occur because of improper employee
actions and behavior. The things out of control are
things that the company does not want and cannot
avoid during the process of providing services to
passengers caused by natural factors and other
organizational behavior. Then, the service failures
can originate from the behavior of the customer itself
and also because of other customer behavior.
2.2 Brand Switching Behavior
Brand switching according to Peter & Olson (2002)
is a buying pattern that has the characteristics of a
change or change from one brand to another. Hawkins
& Mothersbaugh (2010) said brand switching is the
result of customer dissatisfaction with products that
make customers stop buying or using products on
certain brands and replace them with other brands.
Meanwhile according to Ray (2019) brand switching
is a loyal process of one product or service for a
certain period but can also decide to exchange with
another, due to dissatisfaction or changes in
preferences.
According to Mazursky, LaBarBera, & Aiello
(1987), factors that influence brand switching are
intrinsic motives and extrinsic incentives. Intrinsic
Motives are factors that come from the customer.
The dimension is that the customer does not like the
product/service used and the customer moves to
another brand because they want to try a new
product/service. Extrinsic Incentives are factors that
affect brand switching that comes from outside the
customer. Its dimensions are the products/services
offered by competitors are cheaper and competitors
offer attractive promotions.
Then, the factors that influence brand switching
intentions according to Firmansyah (2019) are
advertising, price, product quality, word of mouth
communication, personality, brand image, variety
seeking, customer dissatisfaction and promotion. Of
all the factors that have been mentioned, there are
product quality or service failures and customer
dissatisfaction as factors that influence brand
switching behavior, so that the worse the services
provided and can cause customer dissatisfaction and
greater chances of customers to switch brands. So,
brand switching behavior can arise because of their
own desires or no longer want to use the old brand
again due to perceived dissatisfaction.
2.3 Customer Dissatisfaction
According to Kotler & Keller (2009) dissatisfaction
is a situation where customers' expectations are
higher or not in accordance with the services they
receive from marketers. The opposite of quality
service is service that fails, the consequence that must
be accepted is the dissatisfaction of the customer.
Customers have spent money and time to get
satisfaction for themselves (Laws, 2004). The use of
services is temporary so that there can be many
possibilities of contact between service providers and
customers (Kaihatu, Daengs, & Indrianto, 2015). Lu,