Among the areas which need to be addressed in service quality research is the nature of consumer expectations across the range of intangibility. Previous research has compared consumers’ service quality expectations across services, but different groups of subjects were evaluated for each...

Managers know that customers’ overall service quality perception and positive behavioral intentions toward the service provider are influenced strongly by effective complaint management. In this paper, we provide and test an explanation for how complaint management influences overall service...

Argues that, although reducing complaints has traditionally been equated with improved service, in actuality, the surest road to customer‐focused culture is through increased complaints. Envisions the encouragement of complaints as the route to greater contact between buyers and sellers and...

While many firms have developed programs to handle individual complaints, few have implemented programs to analyze aggregate complaints over time. Attempts to fill that void and outlines a method to analyze and manage aggregate complaints. This is a critical part of a complete complaint...

An often overlooked aspect of service delivery in business‐to‐business settings is the issue of service quality among internal organizational units. Yet, in practice many organizational departments are service providers primarily to customers within the organization. For example, management...

Explains how DHL International is reshaping a highly successful transport company of today into a service provider of logistics solutions for tomorrow. Explores the significance of value‐added services – the term “courier” is no longer applicable in today′s competitive global...

Purpose Service recovery is very important to the insurance industry; it helps to maintain clients, it is a crucial competitive advantage for business survival and it adds value for the organization’s continued future. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing service...

A major US bank has determined that none of its customers should have to wait more than three minutes for service. Presents a procedure that helps management allocate tellers to prevent any customer waiting time from exceeding the three‐minute limit. Uses X¯ and s charts to monitor the...

Purpose – This paper seeks to deal with an exploratory analysis of the impact of technological innovations on the extent of outreach of hospitality services to customers. Design/methodology/approach – After a review of several hospitality services, two factors were selected to assess their...

Interest in employee empowerment in hospitality operations is largely concerned with the improvement of customer service quality. Specifically, it is intended that through empowerment employees will be more committed to successful service encounters and will have the ecessary discretion and...