In this research note, we join the debate between Van Dyke, Kappelman, and Prybutok and Pitt, Watson, and Kavan pertaining to the conceptual and empirical relevance of SERVQUAL as a measure of IS service quality. Adopting argurnents from marketing, Van Dyke et al. (1997) question the SERVQUAL gap measurement approach, the interpretation and operationalization of the SERVQUAL expectation constru...

BACKGROUND Higher education is growing fast and every day it becomes more and more exposed to globalization processes. The aim of this study was to determine the quality gap of educational services by using a modified SERVQUAL instrument among students in Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out at Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences in 20...

A recent MIS Quarterly article rightfully points out that service is an important part of the role of the information systems (IS) department and that most IS assessment measures have a product orientation (Pitt et al. 1995). The article went on to suggest the use of an /S-contextmodified version of the SERVQUAL instrument to assess the quality of the services supplied by an information service...

Higher education is growing fast and every day it becomes more and more exposed to globalization processes. The aim of this study was to determine the quality gap of educational services by using a originally SERVQUAL instrument among students in Faculty of Law Osijek. In this study, a total of 479 students were selected randomly and asked to complete a questionnaire that was designed according...

Applying marketing in health care services is presently an essential element for every manager or policy maker. In order to be successful, a health care organization has to identify an accurate measurement scale for defining service quality due to competitive pressure and cost values. The most widely employed scale in the services sector is SERVQUAL scale. In spite of being successfully adopted...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Research studies pertaining to the assessment of patient satisfaction have been voluminous, depicting areas of hospital services improvement. Many of them are customized for certain types of hospitals as they are varied in nature, ownership, specialty and so on. However, SERVQUAL approac...

With electronic government (e-government) gaining prominence across the globe as a means for effective service delivery to the citizens, there is an increasing interest in examining its service quality dimensions. Yet, there is limited empirical research on the impact of the SERVQUAL gap (the gap between perceived service quality and expected service quality) on user satisfaction with e-governm...

This study aims to compare customer perceptions about service quality of real estate brokerage firms in Thailand and Taiwan by using Parasuraman’s SERVQUAL scale. The results indicated that: (1) all five dimensions of SERVQUAL scale have significant impacts on consumer perception in both countries; (2) the five dimensions’ weight ranking order is not the same in both countries; and (3) There wa...