Purpose – This cross‐national study seeks to examine the service quality dimensions and advertising appeals conveyed in services advertisements in the USA and Korea. Design/methodology/approach – Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions as a basis for distinguishing cultures, this study...

Purpose – Intangibility plays a critical role in the field of services and brings great managerial problems to services firms, particularly for cross‐national firms that operate in unfamiliar host markets. This study attempts to explore how to raise the tangibility of services in foreign...

Intense competition in higher education in many different countries mandates the need for assessments of customer‐perceived service quality for differentiation purposes. An instrument developed specifically from a business education setting was employed utilizing an importance/performance...

This special issue of International Marketing Review focuses on "Services research in across-national or cross-cultural context." The growth of the services sector in a globalcontext has been and continues to be phenomenal. While excellent quantitative as wellas qualitative research is ongoing...