Australasian Marketing Journal 18 (2010) 41–47 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Australasian Marketing Journal journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/amj How the local competition defeated a global brand: The case of Starbucks Paul G. Patterson *‚ Jane Scott‚ Mark D. Uncles School of Marketing‚ Australian School of Business‚ University of NSW‚ Sydney‚ NSW 2052‚ Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Americanised the coffee tradition. Keywords: Service brands
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21 January 2015 Customer Service Matters Introduction Organizations are complex collections of various groups working toward the same common goal. In order to create the effective use of limited resources and to focus on stated goal‚ organizations’ structures are established. The most common structure‚ Functional Structures‚ have 3-5 levels each with their own specific responsibility and expectation. The most commonly recognized levels include the following: Human Resources (Hiring employees
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Opportunities and Problems in Making Services More Tangible Chandhaluk Heesawat (Ph. D.) Assumption University bp3905@yahoo.com Abstract. This paper gives the readers the background to understand how intangibility of services affects customers’ evaluation of service quality. The paper begins with the various views regarding intangibility of services from scholars. Some view intangibility as important characteristics in distinguishing products from services. Others look at intangibility as insufficient
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A Measure of Service Quality for Retail Stores: Scale Development and Validation Pratibha A. Dabholkar Dayle I. Thorpe Joseph 0. Rentz University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville Current measures of service quality do not adequately capture customers ’perceptions of service quality for retail stores (i.e.‚ stores that offer a mix of goods and services). A hierarchical factor structure is proposed to capture dimensions important to retail customers based on the retail and service quality literatures
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1. Why is quality a difficult term to define? How can we improve our understanding of quality? As we can see quality is difficult term to define because quality is not an attribute of the object or product‚ it is a perception that relates a person observing or using a product to that product. Hence‚ quality is not absolute‚ but relative. In the lifecycle of a product‚ quality might be different along the stages. A new product could be a quality product if it is chock full of bells and whistles
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Gaps model of Service Quality The success of 7-eleven The Gaps model of service quality was first developed by Parasuraman‚ Berry and Zeithaml in 1985 and more recently described in Zeithml and Bitner in 2003. The model identifies four spectfic gaps leading to a fifth overall gap between customers’ expectations and perceived service. Knowledge gap The first gap may occur when management identify the customer’s expectation inaccurately. When the customer expectation has difference with the management
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SERVICE QUALITY AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN TANZANIA Kayita Sulaiman
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must look at delivering the service with the best quality in order to attract the most customers and have a competitive advantage over their rivals. The focus of this thesis will be only on horse racing and XYZ LTD as the company also offer to the public the possibility to bet on international football matches as well. It analyses the customer satisfaction on the different aspect of the service offered by XYZ LTD and also the expectation of the customers about the service before and their perception
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Outsourcing Customer Service Executive Summary The choice to outsource company’s relations with their customers is a choice many businesses are making. With the costs of labor more than a quarter of the rate an average customer service representative makes in the United States (U.S.)‚ large companies are making the choice to offshore some‚ or the entire company’s customers service departments to other countries. To many of these companies‚ the benefits are out weighing the issues relating
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on “Evaluation of customer service quality of Uttara Bank Limited” based on secondary data & information. The information used in the report has collected from various sources such as published materials like annual report‚ daily statement of affairs of Amberkhana Branch‚ Sylhet & articles related to banking activities. I have prepared this report to represent the available product & service facilities‚ service quality‚ their strength & weakness‚ efficiency to serve customer‚ terms & conditions
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