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This review brings several contributions to the research domain, including the following: the identification of the main streams of high-quality business research in function of the theories in which the studies are grounded; the development of a conceptual framework of the investigated variables (antecedents, mediators, moderators and consequences); the creation of a conceptual framework of the humanlikeness of chatbots and voice assistants; the development of a conceptual framework of the consumer experience with chatbots and voice assistants and the presentation of insights for business practice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jtaer18020051","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,18]],"date-time":"2023-05-18T10:01:13Z","timestamp":1684404073000},"page":"995-1019","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["Chatbots and Voice Assistants: Digital Transformers of the Company\u2013Customer Interface\u2014A Systematic Review of the Business Research Literature"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5108-6196","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carmen","family":"B\u0103lan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Marketing, Faculty of Marketing, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 6 Piata Romana, 010374 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2022, September 10). 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