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A Study on the Interrelationship Among Healthcare Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Hospital Loyalty and the Mediation Role of Medical Service Value and Hospital Reputation (지방의료원의 의료서비스 품질과 가치, 명성, 고객만족 및 병원애호도 사이의 상호관련성 연구)

  • Kang, Hyun-Soo;Rhee, Munsung;Hyun, Sook-Jung
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2015
  • This study attempts to investigate how healthcare service quality impacts upon hospital reputation, service value, and customer satisfaction. Additionally, the association of customer satisfaction with hospital loyalty and the mediation role of service value and reputation are examined. Analysis results can be summarized as followings: First, the procedural convenience and efficiency have significant impact upon customer satisfaction but personnel service and service scape do not significantly affect customer satisfaction. Second, the personnel service and service scape have significant impacts upon both the service value and hospitals' reputation. Third, service value and hospital reputation contribute significantly to the customer satisfaction. Fourth, customer satisfaction enhances significantly customer's satisfaction and intention to recommend. We conclude that a regional medical center should be able to offer high quality medical services to its customers to satisfy or delight them. Only the satisfied customers will have intention to revisit the medical center or to recommend it to their friends.

A Study of the Effect of Customer Quality on Service Quality and Performance with a Focus on Hotel Service (고객의 질이 호텔 서비스 품질과 성과에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Han;No, Hyeon-Su
    • Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.21-41
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    • 2005
  • This study proposes the customer quality a parameter of service quality from a new perspective, develops and evaluation scale for it in relation to service business, analyzes and evaluates the its effect on service quality and performance. First, the concept of service quality and customer quality was investigated in the literatures, to find a basis for its relation to the quality of hotel service. However, previous 1) Among the service quality components, the strongest correlation exists between physical quality and service quality. 2) Hotel quality is most influenced by customer quality, followed by service provider quality and physical quality showing that when customer quality is incorporated as a prerequisite parameter if hotel quality it has the most effect on hotel quality, which is a new result. 3) Customer quality plays a significant indirect role via hotel quality on performance, and the physical quality and service provider quality offered to the customer at a hotel have more direct effect on performance, illustrating the difference in the effect on hotel quality depending on the component of hotel quality. 4) The evaluation of hotel quality and performance becomes more meaningful and valid only when customer quality is included as a prerequisite parameter of hotel quality to strongly interact with service provider quality 5) Comparative analysis of the different qualities according to the hotel class show a significant difference in customer quality, physical quality and service provider quality and performance between first-class and second-class hotels.

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A Study on Service Quality and Customer Loyalty of Foodservice Industry (급식산업의 서비스품질과 고객애호도 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Gyu;Kim, Gyeong-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.398-407
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    • 2002
  • This study is for confirming and finding which kinds of parameter is on Service Quality and Customer Loyalty of Foodservice Operation. For this, the purpose of the study is investigating the relationship between A Customer Loyalty and the factors which would affect it, relative influence-relation about meditate roles of influence-factors. A study model and several hypotheses were developed regarding the relationships. Moreover, after making a question sheet, based on the collected and analyzed 250 of them. The study model was analyzed with, SPSS 10.0 and AMOS 4.0 program. At first, when the quality of service is high, it directly affects Customer satisfaction. With the result from the study, it is prove that the service quality is very important. On the other hand, the service quality do not directly affect the Customer Loyalty. The second, when the value of service is high, it affects the customer-satisfaction. But, although the value of service is high, it doesn't directly affect the Customer Loyalty. So, it is clear that the value of Service on Foodservice Operations is the variable precedent of customer-satisfaction. The third, when the customer-satisfaction is high, customer loyalty is high. It is necessary to make the strategy about the management of Foodservice for keeping customer-satisfaction steadily. According to this study, the important variables are the value of service, the service quality and customer-satisfaction. With these results, we have to manage the factors for keeping the Customer Loyalty in Foodservice Operations.

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The Influence of Quality of Physical Environment, Food and Service on Customer Trust, Customer Satisfaction, and Loyalty and Moderating Effect of Gender: an Empirical Study on Foreigners in South Korean Restaurant

  • Shin, Yong Ho;Yu, Liu
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.172-185
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    • 2020
  • To explore the impact of restaurant service quality for foreigners in South Korea on customer satisfaction, customer trust, and loyalty from three dimensions: quality of physical environment, food quality, and service quality and the influence of perceived price on satisfaction and loyalty, a survey was conducted by collecting 202 valid questionnaires and Amos 23 was used to examine the relationships between variables. The results show that the quality of physical environment, food quality, and service quality have significant positive effects on customer trust, but only food quality has a significant effect on customer loyalty and all three have no significant effects on customer satisfaction. In addition, customer trust has a significant positive effect on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, but the effect of customer satisfaction on loyalty has not been verified in this study. At the same time, perceived price has a significant positive effect on customer satisfaction, but no significant effect on customer loyalty. Then the study examined the moderating effect of gender by using the SEM multi-group analysis method, founding that there are no significant differences between male and female on the impact of the three dimensions of restaurant service quality on customer satisfaction, and no significant differences between male and female on the impact of perceived price on customer satisfaction and customer satisfaction on loyalty, meaning that gender's moderating effects are not valid. These conclusions of this study are useful for restaurant operators to improve the quality of the physical environment, food quality and service quality, effectively improve customer trust, and thus customer satisfaction and loyalty.

The Effects of Banquet Service according to Customer Satisfaction Factors on the Customer Loyalty in Cheonan (천안 지역 연회 서비스가 고객 만족 요인에 따른 고객 애호도에 미치는 영향)

  • Hong, Young-Ok;Kim, Jang-Eix
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.54-67
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    • 2007
  • This study is purposed to find out the relation between the customer loyalty and customer satisfaction factors in Cheonan banquet service. To achieve the objects, customers of banquet companies in Cheonan were selected for a questionnaire survey and a total of 293 valid questionnaires are statistically analyzed, using frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis and regression analysis. The results can be summarized as follows. First, gender, occupation, family forms showed the statistically different results in the service trust. Second, service trust, menu and traffic factors have been approved to affect the revisit intention of a customer significantly. Third, service trust, menu and facilities factors have been approved to affect the word-of-mouse intention significantly. In summary, banquet managers in Cheonan have to focus on the customer satisfaction factors such as service trust, menu, traffic, facilities to meet the customers' needs.

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The Influence of Service Quality and Relationship Benefit on Customer Voluntary Performance in Apparel store (의류점포(衣類店鋪)의 서비스품질(品質) 및 관계효익(關係效益)이 고객(顧客) 자발성(自發性)에 미치는 영향(影響) 연구(硏究))

  • Choeng, Young-Ju;Jang, Eun-Young;Lee, Sun-Jae
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to confirm Customer Voluntary Performance as a new strategy that contributes to Service Quality and maintains customer Relationship, and to understand how Service Quality and Relationship Benefits on Customer Voluntary Performance. To pursue the above purposes, the experimental model showing the working process was designed like this: Service quality - Relationship Benefits - Customer Satisfaction - Relationship Quality - Customer Voluntary Performance. To accomplish the experimental study, questionnaire method was chosen and targeted women living seoul. 721 questionnaires were used in last analysis. SPSS 8.0 was used in analysis of data. The results show that (1)Customer satisfaction was affected by Service Quality and Relationship Benefits affirmatively; (2)Relationship Quality was affected by Customer Satisfaction, Service Quality, Relationship Benefit; (3)Customer Voluntary Performance was affected by Relationship Quality and Customer Satisfaction; (4)Service Quality and Relationship Benefits influenced on Customer Voluntary Performance. This study has a important meaning that it provides marketing strategy on satisfied relationship maintenance and customer satisfaction creation.

The Influence of C2C E-commerce Logistics Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty in China (중국 C2C 전자상거래 물류서비스 품질이 고객만족도와 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • Yin-Jie Tang;Tae-In Kim
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.61-77
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    • 2022
  • Purpose - The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between C2C logistics service quality(convenience, responsiveness, reliability, information and empathy) customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Design/methodology/approach - This study collected 252 survey data from consumers who use C2C platform in China. Then using SPSS 24.0 in order to analyze the data. This study used SPSS 24.0 to perform empirical analysis with 252 people who use C2C platform in China. Findings - First, it was confirmed that the quality of logistics service(convenience, responsiveness, reliability, information and empathy) had a positive effect on customer satisfaction. Second, logistics service quality(convenience, responsiveness, reliability, information and empathy) positively affects the customer loyalty. Third, there is also a strong relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Research implications or Originality - It is well known that logistics is an important part of e-commerce. Research on the influence of B2B logistics service quality on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty is more currently, but research on C2C is relatively less. Our study contributes the related research area by doing empirical analysis of the relationship between the logistics service quality and customer satisfaction and customer loyalty to provide development suggestions for C2C sellers.

The Effect of Medical Service Quality and Hospital's Reputation on Customer Satisfaction, Repurchase Intention, and Negative Word of Mouth as to Disease Severity (질병의 중증도에 따른 의료서비스 품질과 병원의 명성이 고객만족과 재구매의도, 그리고 부정적 구전에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoo, Dong-Keun;Suh, Seung-Won
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.25-51
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    • 2009
  • This model was empirically developed to test the effect of medical service quality and hospital's reputation on customer satisfaction, repurchase intention, and negative word of mouth as to disease severity. The model was tested in the context of the hospital industry. The findings are as follows. First, medical service provider's functional quality and technical service quality have significant effect on customer satisfaction. Second, hospital's reputation has positive(+) effect on customer satisfaction and significant negative effect on negative word of mouth. Third, customer satisfaction with medical service quality has significantly positive effect on customer's repurchase intention and has negative(-) effect on customer's negative word of mouth. Furthermore, customer's negative word of mouth has negative effect on their repurchase intention. Fourth, as to different disease severity, medical service quality and hospital's reputation have different effect on customer satisfaction, repurchase intention, and negative word of mouth. When patients get slightly ill, functional service quality and technical service quality have direct influence on customer satisfaction which has positive influence on repurchase intention and negative influence on negative word of mouth. Finally, negative word of mouth has negative effect on customer's repurchase intention. However, while hospital's reputation doesn't have effect on customer satisfaction, the reputation has significantly negative effect on negative word of mouth. When patients get seriously ill, only functional service quality has positive effect on customer satisfaction which influences on customer's repurchase intention and negatively influences on negative word of mouth. On the contrary, negative word of mouth doesn't influence on customer's repurchase intention as patients want to treat serious diseases in the large general hospitals even though negative word of mouth is known to them.

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Service Quality of Online Grocery Shopping in Korean Local Regions

  • Chung, Ji-Bok;Choi, Byung-Cheon;Cho, Yong-Sang;Chung, Lak-Chae
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2016
  • Purpose - This paper aims to measure the overall satisfaction of online grocery shopping and identify the quality components of online grocery delivery service. Furthermore, we examine the relationship between service quality, customer loyalty, customer satisfaction and intention of repurchase. Research design, data, and methodology - To test hypotheses, data was collected using questionnaires from online grocery shopping customers living in Korean local regions (Daejeon, Cheonan, Sejong). Quantitative research is applied using confirmative factor analysis and multiple linear regressions. Results - On the whole, customers are satisfied with the online grocery shopping. We found that convenience and reliability of grocery delivery service have a positive effect on the customer loyalty and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, we found that customer satisfaction has a mediating effect between convenience, reliability and customer loyalty. However, responsiveness of grocery delivery service does not have a positive effect on the customer loyalty and customer satisfaction. Conclusions - Since the quality of groceries are very sensitive to time and difficult to standardize, we need to analyze the quality components of delivery service unlike other commodities and find relationships with customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and repurchase intention. The results of research will contribute to providing satisfactory service and capturing loyal customers in retail industry.

The Effect of the Cabin Service Quality on Customer Loyalty and Airline Image (고객 충성도 및 항공사 이미지 형성에 기내 서비스품질이 미치는 영향)

  • Wang, Soo-Myung;Park, Hye-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.47-58
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    • 2016
  • The cabin service quality expected by customers during the air travel can be the top priority to choose an airline. Customers' perception about cabin service quality evaluation are important for developing differentiated cabin service strategies of airlines, so this study aims to analyze the effect of the cabin service quality on airline image and customer loyalty. For achieving this purpose, literature study and empirical study on cabin service, customer loyalty and airline image were performed together. As a results of research, a high level of the cabin service quality provided by airlines significantly influenced positive images of airlines and customer loyalty. And customers' positive image towards airlines practically had a substantial influence on the improvement of customer loyalty. These study results would help in creating positive images of airlines and securing customer loyalty by developing differentiated and improved cabin service quality strategies of each airline in the limitless competition of the aviation service industry.