• Information Systems Review
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.111-137
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• 2018

Considering the increase in health insurance benefits and the elderly population of the baby boomer generation, the amount consumed by health care in 2020 is expected to account for 20% of US GDP. As the healthcare industry develops, competition among the medical services of hospitals intensifies, and the need of hospitals to manage the quality of medical services increases. In addition, interest in online reviews of hospitals has increased as online reviews have become a tool to predict hospital quality. Consumers tend to refer to online reviews even when choosing healthcare service providers and after evaluating service quality online. This study aims to analyze the effect of sentiment score of healthcare service quality on hospital rating with Yelp hospital reviews. This study classifies large amount of text data collected online primarily into five service quality measurement indexes of SERVQUAL theory. The sentiment scores of reviews are then derived by SERVQUAL dimensions, and an econometric analysis is conducted to determine the sentiment score effects of the five service quality dimensions on hospital reviews. Results shed light on the means of managing online hospital reputation to benefit managers in the healthcare and medical industry.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.84-91
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• 2013

For service innovation, it is crucial to measure the quality of service and identify the factors which affect it. In this study, for that purpose, a composite research model based on SERVQUAL and the technology acceptance model is proposed. The model is applied to three different service areas-Internet shopping, Internet banking, and cloud service. Analysis has been performed using the SEM methodology. The analysis shows that reliability, responsiveness and assurance affects the service quality in different ways for each, the result of which enables us to identify quality-determining factors in various service areas.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.559-576
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• 2012

Purpose: This research aims at quality improvement of website services on the internet. Methods: SERVQUAL is redefined for web environments as sixteen statements in five dimensions to identify user requirements for websites and measure their importance ratings. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is used to integrate user requirements into service development for websites so that management and design guidelines can be obtained for user-oriented websites. Fuzzy set theory is introduced to resolve the ambiguity and subjectivity of user requirements in the House of Quality (HOQ). Results: The priorities of design characteristics are extracted from the Fuzzy QFD for University websites. Conclusion: It is expected to provide quality services in less time with less effort, if the results of the Fuzzy QFD are used to provide services in a strategic way under limited resources.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.127-148
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• 2001

As the Internet service is expanding rapidly, portal sites, a gateway tn the net, are attracting increasing attention these days. As the Internet service has expanded rapidly, so has the interest for portal sites,, which serve as a gateway to the net. Despite the tendency, however, research on a measure by which to evaluate the quality of portal sites or development of such measures has not been fully pursued. As online services, faced with profitability, are considering 'charge per view', the development of a set of quality evaluation measures for portal services will prove to become a valuable instrument in constructing competitive strategies that are vital for survival and growth of a firm. In that regard, this study aims to develop a set of evaluation measures for Internet portal sites by empirically investigating the most common offline measures for quality of services, SERVQUAL, retail SERVQUAL and other evaluation measures for IT-related online services. Moreover, the study offers the strategic implications of the defined measures.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.17-32
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• 2004

유통시장의 완전한 개방과 더불어 신유통업태의 등장은 기존 재래시장의 경쟁력 약화라는 결과를 초래하였다. 재래시장의 경쟁력 약화는 곧바로 서민경제의 어려움으로 이어지고 이는 지역경제의 붕괴 및 슬럼화라는 악순환을 가져올 수 밖에 없다. 이러한 시점에 재래시장이 갖는 현실적 여건을 살펴보고, 이를 바탕으로 신유통업태와 경쟁관계를 유지할 수 있는 재래시장만의 차별적 운영방안을 제시하고자 한다. 재래시장에 대한 물리적 개선은 단기적 처방에 머물러 장기적인 방향에서 성장을 도모하기는 어렵다고 판단된 것이 본 연구의 출발점이다. 재래시장만의 고유 특성을 극대화하기 위하여 재래시장을 단순한 상거래업체에서 탈피하여 서비스업의 개념으로 경쟁력 강화방안을 도출하였다. 이를 위해 서비스업의 품질을 측정하고 관리하기 위한 이론적 모델중 SERVQUAL을 이용하여 재래시장의 시설 현대화 및 운영프로세스에 대한 실무적 결과를 제시하였다. 결국, 재래시장도 소비자들이 찾고 만족할 수 있는 운영프로세스의 강화가 이루어질 때, 다양한 유통업태들과의 지역내 공생관계를 통한 동반성장이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.273-278
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• 2007

본 연구는 고객의 형태에 따라 서비스 유형을 결정하는 지표를 설정하기 위하여 고객의 쇼핑태도를 절약형 고객, 단골고객, 개인화고객, 편의고객으로 분류하여 각각의 유형별 고객이 쇼핑태도와 SERVQUAL과의 인과관계를 분석하고 서비스 방향을 설정하기 위함이다. 본 연구는 SERVQUAL과 소비자의 소비 패턴과의 인과관계를 분석하여 기업이 제공하는 서비스의 도구를 개발하여 소비자가 원하는 서비스 경영의 방향을 설정하여 높은 수준의 품질과 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 도구를 개발하기 위함이다. 본 연구는 경기, 충북 지역의 20세-30세의 남 ${\cdot}$ 여를 대상으로 설문하여 최근 젊은층의 소비 패턴을 분석하여 그동안 서비스 기업의 문제점인 고객 불만족, 고비용 저효율, 진정한 성과를 거두지 못한 구조직인 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 방안을 찾고자 하였다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 국내 젊은층을 주 고객으로 하는 서비스 기업에 적용 가능한 서비스 모형을 설정하기 위한 접근방법을 탐색하는데 있다.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.131-145
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• 2000

With the explosion of internet users, there are many enterprises and organizations that regard the internet as the great marketing superhighway. Although fascination and speculation surrounds the impact of the cyber shopping mall on consumer shopping behavior, there is little empirical evidence underlying all this speculation. This article reports on the critical issues that consumers found salient as they browsed through cyber shopping malls. We gathered consumers’reactions via open-ended survey. We relate the reactions to the factors of tangibility, assurance, responsibility, empathy, and reliability which we had identified from the existing literature on service quality. Two additional questionnaires were administered to translate these factors to the cyber shopping mall context and to explore their relative salience. We also evaluated SERVQUAL and SERVPERF as service quality measures for cyber shopping malls. The results show that SERVPERF seems more promising than SERVQUAL. The results also suggest that cyber shopping mall merchants need to think more about how they perform on the issues known to affect customers’decision making for purchasing. We offer advice for enhancing the design of cyber shopping mall.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.103-124
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• 2015

Purpose: This paper proposes a structured approach based on Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for service development in the banking industry. Methods: SERVQUAL is modified and adopted as a tool to understand customer requirements for the QFD. Fuzzy theory is used to resolve the subjectivity and ambiguity of customer requirements and satisfaction. This research also uses the importance- satisfaction model to construct an additional House of Quality (HOQ). A pair of houses of quality provides a confluence of results to avoid a risk of depending solely on the results of a single HOQ. Results: A case study is introduced with three domestic banks. Conclusion: The proposed approach effectively addresses a service development problem.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.483-501
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• 2017

Purpose: Recognizing the limitations of the previous researches that measured the quality of airline service quality only with partial evaluation items of cabin service quality. the purpose of this study is to standardize and develop assessment of the airline cabin service quality with considering the characteristics of cabin service and customer needs. Methods: The proposed method of this paper was the empirical items of airline cabin service quality was derived through reviewing and comparing the previous researches, industrial indicators like Skytrax and KS-SQI and NCS. Results: The result of this research proposed CSQ (Cabin SERVQUAL) which could consist of seven dimensions, separated by five direct customer satisfaction factors and two indirect factors required for providing customer service. Conclusion: The developed CSQ can be used for airline service quality measurement which will achieve establishing a strategy to improve customer satisfaction and satisfaction of Airline's employee.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.28 no.3_4
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• pp.483-490
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• 2004

By using the formerly established SERVQUAL Model, measurement methods and determinant variables in the other papers for the Service Quality, this study first focuses to find out the difference consumers' evaluation between before-experience and after-experience of the educational service, and second, to examine the difference consumers' evaluation between before-experience and after-experience of the educational service according to pre-recognition degree for the subjected educational service quality. The results are derived as follows. 1. As a consequence of the simulation, the consumers distinctly tend to recognize importance of human concern and visual aspect after experience of educational service. 2. Between the group with more pre-recognition degree and less pre-recognition degree for the subjected educational service quality, have no difference.