服务供应链管理、顾客满意与企业绩效

本研究构建了服务供应链管理活动同顾客满意及企业绩效间的结构方程模型,并以来自中国民航服务业的数据进行了实证分析。结果显示服务企业的领导力不仅对服务供应链的战略管理和运作管理活动有正影响效应,还对企业服务信息系统的构建有积极影响;企业文化对企业战略层面的服务供应链管理计划、协作关系的构建、整合服务资源等服务供应链战略管理活动有显著影响;服务供应链战略管理活动、运作管理活动和顾客信息系统的构建通过有效提升顾客满意感、可以增加企业绩效。     

汽车后市场顾客满意度研究

随着市场竞争的日趋白热化,大多数CEO认为顾客管理是企业成功和更富竞争力的最重要的因素。顾客忠诚度提高5%,利润的上升幅度将达到25%~85%。一个非常满意的顾客的购买意愿将六倍于一个满意的顾客。对于一个服务行业,服务的好坏直接影响到顾客的满意感,影响顾客的再次消费。作为服务业的汽车后市场企业,顾客的满意对企业的生存有着决定性的影响。本研究以上海盛大公司汽车企业为例,研究上海盛大汽车企业的顾客满意,旨在评价本企业目前服务现状,以及顾客满意的水平,为企业提升服务质量提供理论参考。     

服务人员的EQ决定成败

服务业及服务人员来说，EQ尤为重要。服务业的管理要做到顾客满意，除了要考虑到顾客需求的产品与服务本身，及整体系统与品牌彤象的建立之外，最重要的就是如何在关键时刻，让顾客真实感受到我们的产品与服务。此时，服务人员的EQ是决定性的关键。     

服务业管理会计信息有用性探讨

在服务业所进行的所有的活动里,对顾客所提供的服务千差万别,就服务业经营管理而言,作为与问题相对应的管理会计研究的方向应当考虑服务业效率和质量维持两个方面;树立构筑和谐顾客关系的经营理念。在服务能力制约的前提下,将管理会计方法引入服务业收益管理中,使管理会计信息在静态收益管理决策和动态收益管理决策中发挥更为积极的作用。     

层次分析法在零售企业顾客满意度研究中的应用

21世纪的竞争是服务竞争,是基于顾客满意的服务竞争。任何企业都不能忽视服务竞争。企业的流程始于顾客的需要终于顾客的满意。从根本上说,企业存在的目的就是满足顾客的需要;从竞争的意义上讲,顾客满意是现代企业迎接挑战的基础。本文正是利用层次分析法在顾客满意度指标权重的设计方面的尝试,以科学合理的测定零售企业的顾客满意度。     

雇主品牌建设——促进服务型企业内部营销的长效机制

在服务业中,顾客对品牌的评价通常会受到与其接触的员工影响,员工满意是顾客满意的基础,因此,从服务企业内部营销的角度来看,持续拥有高满意度的员工是服务型企业竞争力的关键。本文从雇主品牌建设的角度论述了如何增强员工幸福感和员工承诺。     

服务消费顾客满意与顾客忠诚关系调节因素的实证研究

顾客满意与顾客忠诚关系的复杂性一直是学者努力研究的问题,调节因素的存在可以改变顾客满意对顾客忠诚的作用方式和作用程度,尽管一些因素对顾客满意与顾客忠诚关系的调节作用得到学者的关注和探讨,但研究结论并不一致,而且忽视了服务性质差异的影响.以超市百货服务、饭店酒店服务和美容美发服务的顾客调查为依据,考察服务性质、转换成本、顾客-企业社会关系和竞争者吸引力对顾客满意与顾客忠诚关系的调节作用;运用结构方程多组分析显示,这些因素对顾客满意与顾客忠诚关系具有显著的调节作用,服务性质及其他因素的复合调节作用显著,表现出不同特点.对研究结果及其管理启示进行讨论.     

形象创造价值吗?——服务品牌形象对顾客价值—满意—忠诚关系的影响

服务品牌形象是否及怎样为企业和顾客创造价值是营销战略中有待回答的基本问题。该文采用综合视角,通过实证揭示服务品牌形象存在功能性因子和非功能性因子两个有概化意义的维度。在影响机制上,服务品牌形象通过其非功能性因子的直接影响为顾客和企业创造了价值,即服务品牌形象的非功能性因子直接影响了感知质量、感知价值、顾客满意和顾客忠诚,而功能性因子只对感知质量有直接影响。理论贡献在于,在服务品牌中证实了品牌形象理论关于品牌形象存在软—硬因素、产品相关—非产品相关属性及其不同影响效应的相关假设。管理含义在于,服务品牌形象营销需要区分品牌形象因子对顾客消费行为过程、结果、倾向的不同影响效应制定营销策略。     

服务质量管理研究的回顾与现状探析

服务经济时代,服务质量管理是服务运作和服务营销的重要研究问题之一。通过对服务质量形成机制、评价及管理三个领域文献的搜集与整理发现,此类研究可归纳为由两个条件和两部分内容组成的服务质量管理模型:Gronroos的顾客感知服务质量和PZB的五差距等差距模型反映了服务质量的核心形成机制,顾客特征及心理因素是其重要影响因素;SERVQUAL作为典型的服务质量测量表,常被与模糊数学、DEMATEL法综合运用于服务质量评价与改进;服务质量管理包括以服务接触相关要素管理为主的功能质量管理和以服务质量系统改进为主的技术质量管理。此外,网络环境下,服务质量具有特殊的形成机制,决定了其评价与管理的新特点。当前,在服务科学框架下进行服务质量管理研究渐成趋势,未来研究可结合网络特征和新兴服务业,关注服务质量动态特征及科学评价方法,展开行业或城市层面的服务质量管理研究。     

基于东方管理的服务创新与服务利润链实证研究:以通信服务业为例

创新已经成为国内通信服务企业的竞争利器,探讨创新影响企业内部运作、外部顾客满意度和企业绩效的路径和模式.本文以河南省新联通为例,运用调查研究方法和案例研究方法,探讨基于东方管理的服务创新与员工满意、顾客满意和绩效之间的关系.本文得到如下结论:(1)基于东方管理思想的"内部服务创新-员工满意-顾客满意-企业绩效"的服务利润链路径得到验证,但强度较弱,这表明东方管理思想和服务创新理论在国内通信服务企业的应用是有效的,但其作用有待提升;(2)内部和外部服务创新通过直接和间接两条路径影响企业绩效;(3)内部创新影响路径(内部服务创新→员工满意→顾客满意→企业绩效)的强度小于外部创新影响路径(外部服务创新→顾客满意→企业绩效)的强度,表明针对员工的内部服务创新还未成为当前国内通信服务企业创新的重点;(4)除了创新对绩效的间接影响外,内部服务创新和外部服务创新会直接影响企业绩效,这表明国内通信服务企业的创新可能仍倾向于绩效导向,而非顾客导向,即表现出行为短期化.     

The limits of price leadership: needs-based positioning strategy and the long-term competitiveness of Europe’s low fare airlines

This article argues that a strategy of low operating costs and cheap prices is not sufficient in and of itself to establish long term competitive advantage for a growing company. Companies also need to leverage their distinctive corporate capabilities and unique experiences. In the case of service sector companies such as airlines, capabilities derive from the relationship which exists between the company, its employees, and its customers, as well as the reputation which is gradually established on the basis of reliability and quality of service. Unique experiences arise from the corporate culture and route network which an airline builds over time.     

Revenue Management in Business Services

A significant portion of the services industry is focused on providing services (medical, legal, financial, personal, and travel) to individuals. However, studies have shown that a less visible but rapidly growing segment of the service sector comprises firms that provide business functions to other businesses. The sector covers tasks such as payroll processing, procurement, and information systems management, as well as business consulting, technical support, call center operations, and software development. Firms may choose to purchase, rather than perform, these business functions to reduce costs, to mitigate risk, or simply to focus on their processes that provide marketplace differentiation. Transferring a business function from within a firm to an outside supplier is often called “outsourcing”; when the supplier provides the service from a lower‐cost country, it is called “offshoring.” The risks and benefits of outsourcing to the firm purchasing a business service have been studied in some detail by both academics and consultants. In this paper, we outline revenue management issues faced by business service providers and describe some new opportunities for the use of analytic methods in the service science sector.     

COMPARING THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND QUALITY INITIATIVES OF BALDRIGE AWARD WINNERS

Can best‐practice quality firms leverage their quality programs for environmental management? This paper explores this question by comparing the implementation of successful and unsuccessful quality and environmental initiatives in five manufacturing‐ and five service‐sector Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (mbnqa) winners. The results lead to a series of propositions to guide future research. While the literature suggests that quality and environmental programs are closely related, this study finds that drivers of successful environmental initiatives are not the same as those for successful quality initiatives.     

The Impact of Service Quality and Service Characteristics on Customer Retention: Small Businesses and their Banks in the UK1

The recent developments in relationship marketing have increasingly focused attention on the beneficial effects of customer retention. The notion of building relationships and delivering quality service in order to encourage loyalty is perhaps of particular importance in the service sector where it is often argued that customer attraction costs are significantly higher than retention costs. Central to the idea of investment in the development of service quality and customer relationships is the belief that such investments will enhance loyalty, retention and profitability. Empirical evidence on the extent to which such links exist is still partial. This paper explores the relationship between service qualitylcustomer relationships and customer loyalty and retention using evidence from the UK banking sector and its small business customers.     

Total quality management and information technology

Total Quality Management is now well-established as a central method for improving the efficiency and competitive position of firms and organizations. Developed in a manufacturing environment, it has shown the same attributes in administrative and service industries. In this paper we examine the potential for use in the Information Technology sector. Little impact has been made by TQM in the IT industry. We use the famous 14 points of W. Edwards Deming to discuss the potential and the pitfalls awaiting such implementation. The particular nature of the industry means that the techniques are not transparently transportable, and we develop some initial ideas for using TQM in situations which are traditionally seen as one-off and not susceptible to process analysis and measurement. We illustrate the idea of designing in quality by focusing on software design for reduction of maintenance costs and also touch on the role of the IT sector in corporate TQM development.     

Strategic Planning in the Malawi Public Sector: Potential Tool for Progress or Regression?

The process of developing strategic plans in the public sector is regarded as one indicator of positive reform in the system. The assumption is that strategic planning ensures that (just like in the private sector) public sector organizations’ operations should cost less but deliver better service. Ultimately the argument is that public sector institutional governance and responsiveness to the citizenry is not only seen but felt. However, strategic planning has to be done in an appropriate manner for it to deliver. For instance an analysis of the underlying motives, the role of leadership in the process as well as the relevance or viability of the guiding strategic planning model significantly affect the nature of expected results. In the early 2000s, the Malawi public sector embarked on a serious drive towards strategic planning process as part of its reform package. In order to ascertain it’s potential to transform the Malawi public service, this paper focuses at critically analyzing the strategic planning process in the Malawi public sector by among other things asking: who initiated and led the process? What approach determined the process? What is the possible potentiality of the adopted strategic planning approach in enhancing the reform agenda in Malawi? Based on interviews with senior officers in key Malawi public sector institutions, the paper concludes that the strategic planning process is ‘transitional and fluid’ hence lacks the clout to effectively enhance reforms in this sector. Another finding is that lack of effective leadership has largely contributed to the status quo.     

Harnessing Customer Mindset Metrics to Boost Consumer Spending: A Cross-Country Study on Routes to Economic and Business Growth

The relationship between customer mindset metrics (CMMs) and consumer spending has been extensively investigated at the consumer and firm level, but little is known about it at the national level, nor about how it differs between countries. Drawing on five publicly available datasets gathered in 10 European countries over 20 years, our study traces the connections between three CMMs – customer satisfaction, perceived service quality and loyalty intentions – and consumer spending, as well as examining the moderating cross-country effects of culture, socioeconomic factors, economic structure and political–economic elements. The results show that the CMMs significantly influence consumer spending in all the countries studied, with the effects most pronounced in societies with relatively low education levels, a dominant service sector, fewer barriers to business and international trade and a foundation of survival values rather than self-expressive values. Our findings suggest that CMMs can be used to boost not just business performance but also economic growth, and therefore have significant implications for policymakers as well as practitioners and companies.     

Intersectoral Labor Mobility and the Growth of the Service Sector

One of the most striking changes in the U.S. economy over the past 50 years has been the growth in the service sector. Between 1950 and 2000, service‐sector employment grew from 57 to 75 percent of total employment. However, over this time, the real hourly wage in the service sector grew only slightly faster than in the goods sector. In this paper, we assess whether or not the essential constancy of the relative wage implies that individuals face small costs of switching sectors, and we quantify the relative importance of labor supply and demand factors in the growth of the service sector. We specify and estimate a two‐sector labor market equilibrium model that allows us to address these empirical issues in a unified framework. Our estimates imply that there are large mobility costs: output in both sectors would have been double their current levels if these mobility costs had been zero. In addition, we find that demand‐side factors, that is, technological change and movements in product and capital prices, were responsible for the growth of the service sector.     

国外物流服务质量研究述评

物流服务质量研究历时40年,在某些方面取得了一定的理论研究成果,但至今尚未形成完整的理论体系。系统地梳理和总结了国外物流服务质量研究的相关文献,认为物流服务质量研究具体可以划分为3个阶段:概念研究阶段、测量研究阶段、理论研究阶段,并着重对每一阶段的物流服务质量研究进行了分析和评论,进而提出了未来的研究展望。