Service Loyalty: The Effects of Service Quality and the Mediating Role ...
2024-11-07 05:41Service loyalty, with its final effect on repurchasing by customers, appears to have received relatively little attention. This study starts by first delineating the concept of service loyalty and ...
Perceived Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction
A chapter from a book on services marketing that reviews the literature and research on service quality and customer satisfaction. It covers the conceptual models, measurement scales, determinants and implications of service quality for marketing strategy.
Viewpoint: service marketing research priorities | Emerald Insight
Without putting it into a marketing framework and without having to move marketing as marketing into inconvenient directions geared to the characteristics of service, the production and interaction-related aspects could still be studied, but in a service quality domain. Whether this happened consciously or unconsciously can be debated.
Service Quality Measurement | Emerald Insight
Abstract. Concerns customer service/quality in service sector organizations. Presents definitions and determinants of service quality together with a review of a number of research projects, completed in the Manchester School of Management, which focus on the measurement of service quality. Describes assessments which have been carried out in ...
The Relationships between Culture and Service Quality Perceptions ...
The authors argue that perceptions of service quality vary across cultural groups, as defined by each culture's position on Hofstede's dimensions. ... "The Marketing Aspects of Service Quality," in Emerging Perspectives on Services Marketing, Leonard L. Berry, G. Lynn Shostack, and Gregory D. Upah, eds. Chicago: American Marketing ...
Service Quality : New Directions in Theory and Practice
The importance of service and service quality has been growing in the world economy since the late 1970s. Establishing new levels of sophistication and rigor, as well as a broad set of approaches, Service Quality presents the latest research and theory in customer satisfaction and services marketing. Designed to advance the practice of delivering superior service, the field′s leading ...
The influence of brand experience and service quality on customer ...
In service marketing literature, service quality often reflects customers' perceptions and value-judgment of a product or service (Parasuraman et al., 1995). Service quality is widely acknowledged as an antecedent of customer satisfaction and behavioural intention which in turn leads to an organization's profitability ( Alexandris et al., 2002 ...
Quality Control Techniques in Services Marketing | SpringerLink
Abstract. Service quality is becoming an increasing more important concern for marketing managers and executives. Many studies have been initiated to define service quality and to develop conceptual models for its implementation. In this paper we demonstrate the usefulness of Pareto analysis, Ishikawa cause and effect (Fishbone) diagrams, and ...
The experiential meaning of service quality - Sharon Schembri, Jörgen ...
Abstract. Within dominant marketing approaches, service quality is conceptualized as a fixed set of static service dimensions such as reliability and responsiveness that reflect consumer expectations and/ or perceptions. As an alternative to the dominant approaches, the aim in this work is to identify and describe the consumer's lived ...
A Service‐Orientated Approach to Marketing of Services
Abstract. Looks at the author's research among several companies in Sweden and Finland with regard to market‐orientation of service as against physical goods. Found the main difference between them was the difficulty of developing a concrete, tangible service offering. Points out that many experts believe service marketing must differ from ...
Marketing aspects of service quality. | Request PDF - ResearchGate
Marketing aspects of service quality. January 2001. Acta Turistica 13 (2):119-140. Authors: Boris Snoj. The Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. Damijan Mumel. University of Maribor. To read ...
Quality Aspects of Services Marketing | Semantic Scholar
Intensifying competition and increasing customer expectations have created a climate where "quality" is considered to be a major strategic variable for improving customer satisfaction and thus the profitability of financial service providers. Four distinguishing characteristics of services - intangibility, inseparability, heterogeneity and perishability have implications for the ...
A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future ...
The authors attempt to rectify this situation by reporting the insights obtained in an extensive exploratory investigation of quality in four service businesses and by developing a model of service quality. Propositions and recommendations to stimulate future research about service quality are offered.
Quality counts in services, too - ScienceDirect
Based on remarks by William E. Crosby, vice president of passenger service for American Airlines, in Robert C. Lewis and Bernard H. Booms, "The Marketing Aspects of Service Quality," in Leonard L. Berry, G. Lynn Shostack, and Gregory D. Upah, eds., Emerging Perspectives on Services Marketing (Chicago: American Marketing Association, 1983): 100-102.
Managing Service Quality - Managing Quality 6e - Wiley Online Library
Abstract. Managing service quality is concerned with understanding what is meant by service quality, what its determinants are and how they may be measured, and identifying the potential shortfalls in service quality and how they can be recovered. Responsibility for quality service lies with operations, marketing, human resources and other ...
PDF A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future ...
for Future Research. The attainment of quality in products and services has become a pivotal concern of the 1980s. While quality in tangible goods has been described and measured by marketers, quality in services is. undefined and unresearched. The authors attempt to rectify this situation by reporting the insights.
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Links Lewis, R.C. & Booms, B.H. (1983). The marketing aspects of service quality. In Berry, L., Shostack, G. & Upah, G. (eds). Emerging Perspectives in Service ...
Service Quality: Concepts and Models | Emerald Insight
It is estimated that "doing things wrong" typically accounts for between 30 and 40 per cent of a service organization's operating costs. The elimination of this waste and meeting customer expectations are the major challenges facing managers in the service sector. This is why quality improvement is a vital concern for many service ...
Improving service quality in an industrial setting - ScienceDirect
Perceptions of service quality can vary across different organizational hierarchies. Taking an industrial marketing perspective, this paper proposes a methodology for analyzing such differences both within and between a service organization and its industrial/commercial customers. Means of operationalizing the suggested model are discussed, and ...
R. C. Lewis and B. H. Booms, "The marketing aspect of service quality ...
R. C. Lewis and B. H. Booms, "The marketing aspect of service quality," In L. Berry, G. Shostack, and G. Upah, (Eds), Emerging Perspective on Service Marketing, American Marketing Association, Chicago, IL, pp. 99- 107, 1983. ... It further seeks to elucidate the quality aspects of public service. Policy recommendations to achieve the ...
Service quality versus service experience: An empirical ... - ScienceDirect
The extant literature in service marketing emphasizes that service experience is different from service quality in certain aspects. First, service quality is developed through consumers' cognitive evaluation of service attributes that is under the control of the service provider (Altunel & Erkut, 2015).
Lewis, R. and Booms, B. (1983) The Marketing Aspects of Service ...
Lewis, R. and Booms, B. (1983) The Marketing Aspects of Service Perspectives on Services Marketing. American Marketing Association, Chicago. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: Tourist Satisfaction and Service Delivery at Nech Sar National Park of Ethiopia. AUTHORS: Bililign Zafu, Molla Mekonnen Alemu. KEYWORDS ...