A Service Quality Model Based on an Ideal Value Standard
International Journal of Service Industry Management
ISSN: 0956-4233
Article publication date: 1 September 1992
Abstract
The delivery of quality in goods and services has recently become a marketing priority. Marketers of services experience difficulty in understanding and controlling quality. Although a few academic researchers have attempted to define and model quality, serious conceptual and methodological difficulties remain. Argues for a formal value approach to service quality, modelling it as a satisfaction process incorporating an implicit matching of two value‐based constructs: ideal standard and experienced outcome. During this match a negative cognitive bias occurs. Therefore, only negative disconfirmation determines satisfaction. The proposed model was tested in three hotel service encounters in Sweden and found reasonable support.
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Citation
Mattsson, J. (1992), "A Service Quality Model Based on an Ideal Value Standard", International Journal of Service Industry Management, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 18-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/09564239210015148
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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