W4414736253 Peer-reviewed research AI × management and organizations

Engaging Customers with AI in Online Chats: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Shunyuan Zhang · Das Narayandas

Also recorded as: doi:10.1287/mnsc.2022.03920

Management Science · 2025-10-01

Recorded claims
2
coded from the inspected source
Evidence classes
2
crossref-api-metadata, journal-toc-listing
Recorded limitations
6
stated, never hidden

From the hash-bound evidence releases

Recorded claims

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A randomized field experiment with a meal-delivery company reports that AI suggestions improved customer-service agents' response speed, engagement, and customer sentiment, with larger benefits for less-experienced agents and adverse spillovers after prior chatbot-comprehension failures.

confidence: high crossref-api-metadata apw-c1-obot-journals

Scope: publisher-deposited abstract metadata; organizational customer-service setting; sample denominator and experimental period are not stated in the captured abstract

The publisher issue listing places this paper in the special issue on the human-algorithm connection, and its preview abstract reports a randomized field experiment at a meal-delivery company on AI effects on customer-service-agent productivity and customer sentiment.

confidence: high journal-toc-listing apw-c1-obot-journals

Scope: publisher TOC preview abstract

Structured relationships

In-corpus citations

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Cites (1)

Cited by (0)

No in-corpus incoming citation is available in the current enrichment coverage.

Boundaries

Limitations & independence

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Recorded limitations

  • Abstract-level Crossref metadata only; the publisher landing page could not be retained because public retrieval was access-blocked.
  • Crossref supplies only a year and month for publication, so published_date is null rather than an invented day.
  • The abstract does not state the sample denominator or experimental period.
  • Full text was not inspected.
  • Publisher TOC preview abstract is truncated; full text was not inspected.
  • Special-issue membership is established by the issue section heading.

Source independence

publisher-only