Previous studies have found out the positive relationship between customer participation and employee service innovation behavior. In the era of the experience economy, moreover, customer participation is an effective method to solve the lag problem of employee service innovation. Using questionnaire data collected between April and July 2016 from 20 service enterprises in Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Q...

In many services such as primary health care, financial and legal consulting, repair services, hospitality and education, the quality or value provided by the service increases with the time spent with the customer. However, longer service times (slower service rates) result in longer waits for customers. We term such services, in which the interaction between quality and speed is critical, as ...

Key Findings Majorities of respondents have documented goals in place for help desk service availability, user satisfaction, and call/incident resolution. Important drivers of central IT help desk improvement include improving user satisfaction, meeting the changing needs of help desk clients, and improving help desk efficiency. Important obstacles to improving the help desk include rapid growt...

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction in Vietnamese hotels, survey questionnaire was constructed with 23 service quality items covering 5 service quality dimensions based on SERVQUAL model. Data were collected from 432 guests of 33 three-star hotels in Vietnam in 2013. Analysis results indicate that Reliability, Re...

The main objective of this study is to examine the influence of service quality dimensions on customer overall satisfaction. This study posits and develops an instrument of service quality and examines the relationship between perceived service quality dimensions and customer overall satisfaction. The results shows that the most important service quality practice on customer satisfaction is res...

today, organizations continuously try to find the ways to gain loyal customers because of their advantages. customer to customer interactions has attracted more attention among marketers in which customer-to-customer interactions has been known as one of the most important methods of creating loyal customers. the present paper seeks to propose a service model developed in traveling and tourism ...

This study examines how customers can be maintained, which is a particularly important issue for service industry area. Customer service is important not only to private firms but also to public organizations. To improve service quality and maintain customers, organizations must ensure their employees’ job satisfaction. This study measures job satisfaction and examines its effects on service qu...

While there are numerous behavioral and physiological studies of hearing in small birds, there are no studies of hearing in woodpeckers. Woodpeckers are particularly interesting because they exhibit a variety of cranial adaptations that may influence auditory sensitivity. The present study examined auditory sensitivity in small woodpeckers using the cochlear microphonic (measured subdermally an...

Customer Service Management (CSM) offers customers a “logical view” onto the service management of a service provider. CSM describes a management interface between customer and service provider and enables a customer to access service-specific management information about the subscribed service. The information flow across the CSM interface is bidirectional, from customer to service provider an...