Prior studies of how service quality evolves during the service delivery process have used aggregate case data in retrospect or have not obtained objective measures of the actual dimensions of the service encounter on an individual basis. Reports on a study of an actual hotel service delivery...

Research on export behaviour and the determinants of export performance of manufacturing firms abounds in the literature. By contrast relatively little research has been undertaken that focuses on service exporters despite the growing importance of service exports in most advanced industrialised...

Models link between employees’ behavior and short‐ and long‐term customer perceptions. Subjects were confronted with five different video taped non‐routine service encounters (study 1) and eight manipulated routine service encounters (study 2). In study 1, two judges encoded behavior of...