Service quality:research perspectives

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schneider Benjamin, 1938-
Group Author: White Susan S.
Published: Sage Publications,
Publisher Address: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Publication Dates: c2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Foundations for organizational science
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xiii, 185 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 076192146X (Cloth)
0761921478 (pbk.)
Index Number: F713
CLC: F713
F718
F274
Call Number: F274/S358
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introducting service quality -- Approach of the book -- What are services? -- What is Quality? -- Why is the study of service quality important? -- Overview of the rest of the book -- Conceptualization and measurement of service quality : marketing perspectives -- Dimensions of service quality -- Gap models and the role of expectations in service quality -- Overall service quality -- Service quality and customer satisfaction -- Survey development : an intregrated perspective -- Service operations and the presence of the customer -- The customer-contact model of service delivery -- Classification of services by lovelock -- Potential benefits of customer coproduction -- Managing variability through a focus on the customer -- Reducing variability through a focus on the facility -- Linking operational procedures to service quality and profits, too -- Revenue management -- Service climate -- Defining climate -- Climate for service -- Linkage research -- Creating a service climate -- Where are we and where do we go from here? -- How customers and service are viewed in the different fields -- Integrated approaches from service management -- Introducing service quality into HRM/OB.