Sunday, 11 November 2007

Oh 1999

Service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer value: A holistic perspective

Great article - need to read around it - but sounds exactly what I am looking for. Applied to lodgings but integrated model IS what I am looking for. Looks at an discusses all the relevant concepts, and then builds an integrated / holistic model.
First of all looks at service quality lit SERQUAL
Then Oliver's 1981 expectancy disconfirmation model looks more at "direct" measures - the SERVQUAL measured before and after and then looks at the difference. EDP looks at comparisions with "worse than/ better than expected" scale. This model asserts that customer satisfaction is a direct function of subective disconfirmation.
SERVQUAL differs from EDP in that EDP attempts to explain and theorize whereas SERVQUAL looks to describe
Oh points to the fact that EDP is generally accepted by market researchers.
Then moves onto value.
Zeithaml. (1988)
Dodds (1991)
Woodruff (1997)
Parasuraman (1997)
Lots of ambiguity of definitions of value.
This study looks at the diversified views on the consumer purchase decision-making process that are reflected in the models of service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer value.

Thursday, 8 November 2007

bolton 1991

A Multistage Model of Customers' Assessments of Service Quality and Value

quite an old deep article - looking primarily at SERVQUAL- from Parasuraman, Berry, Zeithaml.
Looks at Satisfaction (EDP), service quality, service value, perceived quality
The methods looked at local telephone services from 1985
sample of 1408
limitations - phone service (?) multi-stage not really suitable.

martinez 2006

Can Price Promotions Improve Tourist Loyalty to Tour Operators

better article than it seems - appears to be about price promotion which isn't really too relevant, but the methodology is cool
looks at loyalty, attitude, and switching costs.
makes a good distinction between First timer and repeater.
pg 39 instrument
Perceived quality 8 items
switching costs 2 items
to loyalty 2 items

cronin 1992

Measuring Service Quality: A Reexamination and Extension

good article - trying to sort the eternal problem of Service quality ? customer satisfaction / intentions
links well into value.
one of the key articles as it really tries to dig into the issues and arguments.
highlights how complicated the whole issue is.
is serice quality different from satisfaction? how?
uses SERVQUAL (parasuraman, zeithaml, berry 1988)
importance weighted SERVQUAL
SERVPERF
inportance-weighted version of SERVPERF
medium sized city in US
660 usuable questionnaires
banking, fast food, dry cleaning, pest control
generalizable?

Grewal 1998

The Effects of Price-Comparison Advertising on Buyers' Perceptions of Acquisition Value, Transaction Value, and Behavioral Intentions


of limited value - perceived acquisition value discussed, but more to do with products, prices and advertising.
distinction between transaction value and acquisition value (?)
pg 48
I think perceived acquisition value is closer to what i am talking about - perceived value.
Perceived transaction value - more about variations in price - special deals and how peolpe feel about them.

Moliner 2006

Relationship quality with a travel agency: The influence of the postpurchase perceived value of a tourism package

very eloborate model - sample from spain looking at perceived value/satisfaction/ trust / commitment
Interesting veer in to the more emotional side of feelings, rather than the purely rational.
Good blurbs on SATISFACTION, COMMITMENT, TRUST, PERCEIVED VALUE,
Uses GLOVAL scale (?) full scale shown on pg 203
Good breakdown of trust/ satisfaction/commitment instruments pg 205
402 interviews in 3 different cities.
Analysed using LISREL

touches on Ajzen Fishbein

Wakefield 1996

Retailing hedonic consumption: A model of sales promotion of a leisure service

Good study - touches on loyalty and perceived value in a straight forward way - no in-depth discussion.
Perhaps not too applicable as it looks at minor league baseball with fireworks, but the instrument is interesting.
p417
B Loyalty to service provision
3 items
C perceived Quality of service environment
3 items
E. Peceived value of service provision
3 items
F Repatronage Intention
1 item