The Service Quality or Gap model (SERVQUAL) has been recognised as an essential tool in identifying service quality and further than this the relationship between a company and its customers. This is vital for firms in sustaining existed advantage and ability to grow further. The purpose of this paper is to identify how applicable the model can be in the context of family owned restaurants and ...

University education, the world over, has undergone significant transformation and reform with respect to higher education systems meeting the growing role of information and communication revolution, and the demand for knowledge, which represent the new challenges of globalisation. These challenges are seen as threats as well as opportunities for higher education systems around the world. The ...

Methods Using a modified version of the SERVQUAL questionnaire, participants were asked to assign a score to each of 10 service quality factors (SQFs) on a 5 point Likert scale to indicate (i) how important they considered each SQF in relation to their attendance at the clinic & (ii) their actual experience that day. Participants were also invited to describe anything they found particularly sa...

The authors respond to concerns raised by Cronin and Taylor (1992) and Teas (1993) about the SERVQUAL instrument and the perceptions-minus-expectations specification invoked by it to operationalize service quality. After demonstrating that the validity and alleged severity of many of those coiicerns are questionable, they offer a set of research directions for addressing unresolved issues and a...

This paper responds to the research note in this issue by Van Dyke et aL concerning the use of SERVQUAL, an instrument to measure 1Robert Zmud was the accepting senior editor for this paper.

Extranets for business-to-business information sharing and transaction handling are becoming increasingly common. Yet there is limited research into perceptions of service quality when using Extranets. This paper relates the literature on service quality to the developing literature on Extranets and describes the development and piloting of instruments to measure Extranet service quality from a...

Over the past decade, SERVQUAL has emerged as perhaps the most emerged as perhaps the most popular standardized questionnaire to measure service quality. Despite numerous criticisms, popular standardized questionnaire to measure service quality. This study investigates the usefulness of the three-column format SERVQUAL proSERVQUAL continues to appeal to both academics and practitioners. Origina...

Important marketing scales such as SERVQUAL are often adapted for use in a particular applied/theory-testing context and/or refined using some statistical method, assuming the resultant scale will have improved psychometric properties for a particular application. However, little attention has been paid to the consequences of how scale modifications are made, the criteria that are used to asses...

The SERVQUAL scale has been used to measure the quality of IT service experienced by business customers. Recent research has extended the IT service quality research by studying the other half of the server-customer relationship, i.e., the IT department (Jia and Reich, ICIS 2005). Building from organizational climate theories, a new construct, IT Service Climate, has been proposed as an anteced...

Customer satisfaction and client orientation concepts are needed in all service providing organisations, including those engaged in construction and infrastructure provision within the public sector where the public perception about their services is at its lowest. This study measures the expectations and perceptions of various service elements among clients of Military Engineer Services (MES) ...